Ala Qumsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I came up with this:
> perl -aF"\n" -lp0 -i -e '$_=join$\,[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in.file
>
> But then, I remembered Eugene's (in)famous solution to
> reverse sort, but couldn't get it to work:
>
> perl -pi -e '$x=$_.$x}{$_=$x' in.file
>
> This prints to screen, not back to the file.
> Any takers?

  (It prints to screen because the special output file is no longer
select()ed.  But you all knew that.)

  My take:

perl -ni -e 'eof&&print;$\=$_.$\' in.file


Eirik
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