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Re[2]: reading the end of file



> >   tac filename > filename_taced 
> 
> Hey, cool.  I never knew that...
> 
> > turns around a file, the end becomes the beginning. 
> >   head -n 10 filename_taced | tac 
> 
> Why use an intermediary file instead of a pipe?
> 
> $ tac filename | head -n10

this would be more readable in the case of a plain-text file:

$ tac filename.txt | head -n 10 | tac

and yes, that's cool :)

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