tac(1)

tac1

Concatenate and print files in reverse

Usage

tac [OPTION] ... [FILE] ...

Overview

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

Non-seekable input is buffered to $TMPDIR, defaulting to /tmp.

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 15 times.

  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2–2.1
  3. 2.2
  4. 3.0
  5. 3.1
  6. 4.0
  7. 5.0
  8. 6.0
  9. 7
  10. 8
  11. 9
  12. 10
  13. 11
  14. 12
  15. 13
  16. Arch

Author

Written by Jay Lepreau and David MacKenzie.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to: <[email protected]>.
Report any translation bugs to: <https://translationproject.org/team/>.
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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From coreutils 9.12-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.