Never forget a special trick...

[Nate Dobbs]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Phillip Spring <
gatinhodosseussonhos at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dear anonymous open-source enthusiasts friends,
>
> How to echo a string backwards into a terminal?
> For example (or something like this):
>
> # echo @_foo_$
> oof
>
> Or it could be something else (that's because I forgot it):
>
> # echo $_bar_@
> rab
>
> Someone told me how to do it but I can't remember this trick.
> I just remember the date it happened: Oct-13-2011
>
> []'s
> Phillip.
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I'm not entirely sure how to do this in any arbitrary shell - although you
could simply use the 'rev' command.

%echo HELLO! | rev
!OLLEH

Here is a link to the man page:

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?rev


-- 
Cheers,

Nate Dobbs RHCE