On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 Curt wrote:
On 2023-03-02, Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> wrote:On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 07:25:58AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:I don't understand why you used sort -r, but then reversed it again with tac at the end. You could drop both of the reversals, and just change head to tail.The short answer is because I wrote all but the last "tac" several years ago, and added the last "tac" in writing the mail, when I realised the output was the other way around to how I'd prefer.You'd think you'd want the biggest pigs listed first.
Yeah, it makes no sense backwards Home All the way This little pig went wee wee wee This little pig had none This little pig had roast beef This little pig stayed home This little pig went to market
But I haven't been following.
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