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Re: tac --separator


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: tac --separator
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:10:58 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

Erkan Yanar <address@hidden> writes:

> $ echo -e "a b c d"| tac  --separator=" " 
> d
> c b a
>
> Why is tac only using the first space as separator?

There are four "lines" in the input (the last one is incomplete), which
are correctly reversed in the output.

Andreas.

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