The reverse of 'cat' is 'tac'.  Really! :)

man tac...

tac - concatenate and print files in reverse

HTH,
- Rog

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 1:51 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [SLUG] Tricky text processing question..
> 
> I am guessing sed might help me out with the following or 
> maybe another util. Any suggestions welcome as the manual 
> processing of the files is crazy.
> 
> I have a file like so..
> 
> 'blah10'
> 'blah09'
> 'blah08'
> 'blah07'
> 'blah06'
> 'blah05'
> 'blah04'
> 'blah03'
> 'blah02'
> 'blah01'
> 
> And what I want is the output into a new file to basically 
> flip it around
> 
> 'blah01'
> 'blah02'
> ..
> 'blah10'
> 
> Would sed or something else help process this file in a quick 
> and easy method.. Any help appreciated
> 
> 
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