I’d like to reverse the order of lines in a text file (or stdin), preserving the contents of each line.

So, i.e., starting with:

foo
bar
baz

I’d like to end up with

baz
bar
foo

Is there a standard UNIX commandline utility for this?

24 s
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Also worth mentioning: tac (the, ahem, reverse of cat). Part of coreutils.

Flipping one file into another

tac a.txt > b.txt

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