[wellylug] yet another simple super basic bash question

[Murray Fox]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:57, Mark Signal wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need to reverse a 4 digit number in a bash script
> eg 1234 becomes a variable of 4321
> I suppose I could do it with cut and reassemble the bits in the reverse
> order but there must be a neater way.
>
> any suggestions?
>
> cheers
>
> Mark

Use rev ;

$ echo "1234" |rev
4321

Cheers,

Murray
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