tac Command Examples

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

• 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 [s]eparator:

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

• Use a specific [r]egex as a [s]eparator:

tac -r -s {{separator}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

• Use a separator [b]efore each file:

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