100 Useful Command-Line Utilities

by Oliver; 2014

87. rev

rev reverses a string:

$ echo hello | rev
olleh

As noted in the bioinformatics wiki, we can use this trick to find the reverse complement of a string representing DNA nucleotides:

$ echo CACTTGCGGG | rev | tr ATGC TACG
CCCGCAAGTG

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