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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.