Never forget a special trick...

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 03:49:35PM -0500, Nate Dobbs wrote:
>> 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
>
> http://man.freebsd.org/rev  ;-)

Now that (the fact that I can get to the manpages by using the man
subdomain) is a trick I can use :D...
Thanks!
-Garrett