On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Hills <hills...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not supported by default on Solaris 5.8, Solaris 5.10, RHEL 4(NU7), > RHEL 5.6, or Arch Linux (updated an hour ago). According to [0], only > BSD tail has the reverse option.
Any reason not to sort(1) them before you feed them to perl? And don't get me wrong: perl is my favorite language, but wouldn't something akin to history | sort -r | sed '1d; s/^[ \t]*[0-9]*[ \t]*//' work just as well? -- # Kurt H Maier
