Timeline for Reversing a file line-wise and character-wise
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| Jul 15, 2020 at 13:14 | comment | added | fra-san | @EnricoMariaDeAngelis The point is portability. sed is found on any POSIX-compliant system (or that at least tries to comply), while rev and tac aren't among the standard utilities (This does not mean that they can't be found on non-GNU/Linux systems, though). | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 12:58 | comment | added | Enlico | Nice, I like sed, but since it is essentially also doing the 2 step work that can be done with rev and tac, I guess there's little point in using it instead of those two. But I'll really take time to look a bit more into the first command ;) | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 12:51 | history | answered | francois P | CC BY-SA 4.0 |