
PerlIO::reverse - Reads lines backward

open my $rev, '<:reverse', 'foo.txt';
print while <$rev>; # print contents reversely

The :reverse layer reads lines backward like tac(1).

Here is a minimal implementation of tac(1).
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Usage: $0 files...
use open IN => ':reverse';
print while <>;
__END__

:gzip, :dir, etc.

Goro Fuji (藤 吾郎) <gfuji (at) cpan.org>

Copyright (c) 2008, Goro Fuji <gfuji (at) cpan.org>. Some rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.