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TAC

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
SEE ALSO

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

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

SEE ALSO

cat (1), rev (1)

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/tac>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) tac invocation'

Packaged by Debian (9.7-3)
Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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.