REV(1)

📦 version 1.053, in alpine 3.24

💅 REV(1) — the reverse-lines girlie

ok so this is the perl-doc version of REV(1), and bestie, it is so much simpler than it sounds. it's literally just "read a line, flip it, print it." that's the whole vibe. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

rev — reverse lines of a file 💫

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rev [file ...]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so the rev utility does exactly one iconic thing and does it flawlessly: it copies the files you list over to standard output, but it reverses the order of characters in every single line. that's it. main character energy, zero notes. 👑

and if you don't specify any files at all? it just reads from standard input. she's flexible like that. 🫶

💖 OPTIONS 💖

rev accepts the following options:

  • --version — prints the version number and then exits. cute little bow on top. 🎁

💀 BUGS 💀

rev has no known bugs. not one. flawless. iconic. no notes. periodt. ✨

ngl, a bug-free manpage section is the rarest thing in all of unix, and she said it with her whole chest.

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

this Perl implementation of rev was written by Andy Murren, andy@murren.org. absolute legend, we stan. 🫡

this program is covered by the GNU Public License (GPL). see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for complete detail of the license. read it, bestie, iykyk. 📜

and that's the whole page, babe 💅 — this was perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-02-15, signing off on the REV(1) manual page. go reverse some lines, you're gonna slay 🎀✨💜

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