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Name

tac - concatenate and print files in reverse

Synopsis

tac [\,OPTION\/]... [\,FILE\/]...

Description

Write each FILE to standard output, last line first.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-b, --before attach the separator before instead of after

-r, --regex interpret the separator as a regular expression

-s, --separator=\,STRING\/ use STRING as the separator instead of newline

--help display this help and exit

--version output version information and exit

Author

Written by Jay Lepreau and David MacKenzie.

Reporting Bugs

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

Copyright

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

See Also

rev(1)

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/tac> or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) tac invocation\(aq