How to reverse lines of a text file?

There is a standard command for your purpose:

tail -r file.txt

prints the lines of file.txt in reverse order!

shell command-line filter reverse

Answer is not 42 but tac.

Edit: Slower but more memory consuming using sed

sed 'x;1!H;$!d;x'

and even longer

perl -e'print reverse<>'

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