Sometimes one needs things that cannot be done with a built-in function of Word or Libre Office Writer.
\nI needed to reverse the lines of a file. The IMHO most elegant solution to do this was:<\/p>\n
cat -n myfile | sort -nr | cut -c 8- > outfile.txt<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Basically it is enumerating the lines of the file, sorting them in reverse order and then cutting away the numbers. Isn’t bash beautiful?<\/p>\n
Of course, Linux also has dedicated command to reverse the lines of a file, it is called tac<\/em> (‘cat’ reversed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes one needs things that cannot be done with a built-in function of Word or Libre Office Writer. I needed to reverse the lines of a file. The IMHO most elegant solution to do this was: cat -n myfile | … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[18,19,20],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","category-uncategorized","tag-bash","tag-linux-text","tag-processing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.nes.aau.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}