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


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/>

COPYRIGHT


Copyright © 2009 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.

SEE ALSO


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.

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