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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 15 |
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index eac8d52bb..e29af8bec 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -1613,10 +1613,7 @@ precedes in the file. @itemx --regex @opindex -r @opindex --regex -Treat the separator string as a regular expression. Users of @command{tac} -on MS-DOS/MS-Windows should note that, since @command{tac} reads files in -binary mode, each line of a text file might end with a CR/LF pair -instead of the Unix-style LF. +Treat the separator string as a regular expression. @item -s @var{separator} @itemx --separator=@var{separator} @@ -1626,8 +1623,18 @@ Use @var{separator} as the record separator, instead of newline. @end table +On systems like MS-DOS that distinguish between text and binary files, +@command{tac} reads and writes in binary mode. + @exitstatus +Example: + +@example +# Reverse a file character by character. +tac -r -s 'x\|[^x]' +@end example + @node nl invocation @section @command{nl}: Number lines and write files |