REV(1) User Commands REV(1)

rev - reverse lines characterwise

rev [option] [file...]

The rev utility copies the specified files to standard output, reversing the order of characters in every line. If no files are specified, standard input is read.

This utility is a line-oriented tool and it uses in-memory allocated buffer for a whole wide-char line. If the input file is huge and without line breaks then allocating the memory for the file may be unsuccessful.

-h, --help

Display help text and exit.

-V, --version

Print version and exit.

-0, --zero

Zero termination. Use the byte '\0' as line separator.

tac(1)

For bug reports, use the issue tracker at https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.

The rev command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

2024-03-27 util-linux 2.40