Manual: gnutac
TAC(1) User Commands TAC(1)
NAME
tac - concatenate and print files in reverse
SYNOPSIS
tac [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Write each FILE to standard output, last line first.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-b, --before
attach the separator before instead of after
-r, --regex
interpret the separator as a regular expression
-s, --separator=STRING
use STRING as the separator instead of newline
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Jay Lepreau and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
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SEE ALSO
cat(1), rev(1)
Full documentation
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) tac invocation'
Packaged by Ubuntu (9.7-3ubuntu2)
Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later .
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
GNU coreutils 9.7 January 2026 TAC(1)