rev utility for windows

[malladisk]

Hi, I used to work on UNIX systems and moved to windows utility. Needless to say, I feel quite restricted due to lack of typical utilities on Windows. I've downloaded a few .exes which mimic standard UNIX utilities but haven't been able to find a rev.exe (to reverse the characters of a line) anywhere. Anyone knows where I can find it? Or the source code which I can compile?
Regards,
Sashi

 

[olded]

Hi:

If you have the sed utility:

sed '/\n/!G;s/\(.\)\(.*\n\)/&\2\1/;//D;s/.//'

I grabbed this from Eric Pement's sed resources:

http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sed1line52.txt

 

[rzs0502]

I use Microsoft Services for Unix or Cygwin to provide Unix utilities on Windows.
Works pretty well and offers other handy features.


"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[PHV]

A simple awk program to reverse the characters of a line:
awk '{for(i=length($0);i>0;--i)printf "%c",substr($0,i,1);printf "\n"}' input > tupni

Hope This Helps, PH.
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