{"id":37864,"date":"2019-09-09T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=37864"},"modified":"2019-09-09T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T09:00:50","slug":"getting-started-with-the-linux-tac-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=37864","title":{"rendered":"Getting started with the Linux tac command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cat_pet_animal_upsidedown.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"291\" alt=\"upside down cat\" title=\"upside down act\"><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>tac<\/strong> command is essentially the <a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/19\/2\/getting-started-cat-command\"><strong>cat<\/strong><\/a> command, but its purpose is to concatenate files in reverse. Like <strong>cat<\/strong>, it has a convenient fallback mode to print to <em>standard output<\/em> (STDOUT) if no output file is provided, making it one of those commands that are more often used as a lazy pager&mdash;like <strong>less<\/strong> and <strong>more<\/strong>&mdash;than the function it is named for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/19\/9\/tac-command\">read more<\/a><br \/><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"24663-3514371590\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tac command is essentially the cat command, but its purpose is to concatenate files in reverse. Like cat, it has a convenient fallback mode to print to standard output (STDOUT) if no output file is provided, making it one of those commands that are more often used as a lazy pager&mdash;like less and more&mdash;than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}