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Linux - Displaying a File in Reverse

Latest update on May 26, 2020 at 12:10 PM by David Webb .

Users are allowed to display a particular file in reverse when they are using Linux based computer system. The command cat is used to display a file.

How To Display a File in Reverse on Linux

To view a file in reverse, there is simply the tac command. It is actually the CAT written in reverse:
```
tac file
```
Like the command cat, you can concatenate several files, which will be put together, but in reverse:
```
tac file1 file2 file3
```

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Dec 31, 2019 at 03:18 PM

Very helpful. I realized 'sort -r' wasn't what I wanted, which was to display a log file with the
most recent entry at the top. 'tac' worked perfectly.