in reply to Better Way to Do it 2

and still shrinking

perl -pi -e '$_=reverse'

Update: yep as MarkM points out this reverses each line, not the order of lines :(.

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Re: Re: Better Way to Do it 2
by MarkM (Curate) on Aug 28, 2003 at 15:59 UTC

    Unless I'm missing something, your solution doesn't work. You are using reverse in scalar context, which reverses the order of the string, not the order of the lines.

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