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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I found this works:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial">awk '{a[NR]=$0} END {print a[NR]; for (i=1;i<NR;i++) print a[i]}' originalfile >newfile<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial">Where you replace originalfile and newfile with real file names.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org]
<b><span style="font-weight:
bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Lightner, Jeff<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:10 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [ale] Move last line of a file to first line</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">We have variable length text files being received in which the “header” line we use in automated processing is the last line of the file rather than the first
line.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">What is the best way to move that last line of a text file to be the first line?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Please answer the question as asked and don’t suggest making the file be in the correct order when we receive it or changing the automated processing to read
the last line first. Assume those aren’t options.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">What I came up with was to do tail -1 >newfile and head -<number of lines – 1> but was thinking there ought to be a better way.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I see sed can deal with last line, first line and insertion but the examples I’m finding address either/or not moving last line to first line.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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