tac(1) - Linux man page

Name

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

Report tac bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report tac translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

Copyright

Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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.

See Also

The full documentation for tac is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and tac programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils aqtac invocationaq

should give you access to the complete manual.