tac Command Examples

Display and concatenate files with lines in reversed order. See also: cat. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/tac-invocation.html.

• Concatenate specific files in reversed order:

tac {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

• Display stdin in reversed order:

{{cat path/to/file}} | tac

• Use a specific separator:

tac {{[-s|--separator]}} {{separator}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

• Use a specific regex as a separator:

tac {{[-r|--regex]}} {{[-s|--separator]}} {{separator}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

• Use a separator before each file:

tac {{[-b|--before]}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}