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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [BusyBox] Does anyone need 'tac' command?
From:       Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd () firmix ! at>
Date:       2003-08-29 8:47:36
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On Fre, 2003-08-29 at 10:33, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:51:24 +0800
> Yang Xiaopeng <yxp@hanwang.com.cn> wrote:
[...]
> > I write a ugly 'tac' applet for busybox, it's very simple, just print 
> > input file lines in reverse, hope it could be helpful.
> 
> tac would be good to fill out coreutils, but writting to /tmp could
> cause some problems as busybox is use usually short on available disk
> space.
> 
> I dont have any better suggestion right now though.

What is `sort` doing, whoch has the same problem with respect to the
input lines?

	Bernd
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