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tac

concatenate and print files in reverse

tac [OPTION]... [FILE]...

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.

attach the separator before instead of after
interpret the separator as a regular expression
use STRING as the separator instead of newline
display this help and exit
output version information and exit

Written by Jay Lepreau and David MacKenzie.

Report tac bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report tac translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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.

rev(1)

The full documentation for tac is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and tac programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info coreutils 'tac invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.