This may be a diversion, but could not resist!
There are some real gems Unix/Linux. man perl leads to, at the beginning:
perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
and, near the end:
Perl actually stands for Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister, but don’t tell anyone I said that.
:D
Sincerely, U N Gaitonde
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From: Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:56:36 +0530 Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux Graphical Apps
<SNIP>
perl -e 'undef$/;$"=chr(10);foreach(@ARGV){open(F,$_); $l=<F>;@l=reverse(split(/\n/,$l));close(F);open(F,">$_");print F "@l";close(F);}' file1 file2 file3...
looks like chinese - so it must be perl
regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/