How can I reverse the order of lines in a file?

Question

I'd like to reverse the order of lines in a text file (or stdin), preserving the contents of each line.

So, i.e., starting with:

foo

bar

baz

I'd like to end up with

baz

bar

foo

Is there a standard UNIX commandline utility for this?

Answer 1

BSD tail:

tail -r myfile.txt

Reference: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and OS X manual pages.

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