Why are you using a temporary file at all? Couldn't you just read backward from each file and print to STDOUT?

something like 

for my $file (reverse @ARGV) {
   read_backward_and_print($file);
}

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Why do you need 2 arguments? I'd guess you might want to reverse a single file too...

I'd write your check as: 

die "Usage: $0 FILENAMES\n" unless @ARGV >= 2;

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Also, I was under the impression that tac was supposed to print the lines in the files in reverse order, NOT to also print the reverse of each line...

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In reply to Re: Grade me! TAC by Joost
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