Log cat in Reverse Chronological Order

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Is there any way to make the Log cat entries in in Reverse Chronological Order?

I've Windows installation of eclipse – Mithun Sreedharan Dec 29 '11 at 05:08 — Mithun Sreedharan, Dec 29 '11 at 05:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 29 '11 at 05:07

The tac(1) utility from the Debian / Ubuntu package coreutils can easily print files in reverse. tac /path/to/log/file

If you don't have tac(1) installed, perhaps you have nl(1), sort(1), and cut(1) installed; try nl /path/to/log/file | sort -rn | cut -f2-

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