Look at Files in Reverse

To look at a log in reverse (most recent events first), run tac logfile | less. tac reverses the lines of any file. Use tac - to read from stdin.
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
Martin Streicher is the founder of Locomotive, an expert Rails consultancy. Formerly, he was Editor-in-Chief of Linux Magazine from 2002 to 2007. You can contact him at martin.streicher@linux-mag.com and follow him on Twitter.

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