Oh wise oh, powerful monks! On p.97 of Llama, merlyn states thusly:

Write a program that acts like cat, but reverses the order of the output lines. (Some systems have a utility like this called tac.) If you run yours as ./tac fred barney betty, the output should be all of file betty from last line to first, then barney then fred, also from last line to first.

I seem to be having trouble reversing the input, but not the files. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

@ARGV = reverse @ARGV;
while (<>) {
 chomp;
 print "\n@_\n";
}

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I've tried a couple of different approaches that didn't work. Here's an example: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $in;

@ARGV = ( reverse @ARGV);
foreach my $x (@ARGV){
 @in = <$x>;
 @in = reverse @in;
}
while (@in) {
  chomp;
  print "\n$_\n";
}

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I get perl complaining of "readline() on unopened file at ./tac.pl line 7."when I tried that solution. This seems simple, but in practice I am stumped. I'd appreciate the help of a more powerful monk.

Many THANKS!

In reply to Llama ./tac stumper by bluethundr

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