How to sort output of a command in reverse order in Linux or UNIX ?

Question

Write a unix command to display the every character in the word "QUERYHOME" in new line.

Ex : Input - QUERYHOME
output: Q
U
E
R
Y
H
O
M
E

Answer 1

"sort -r" option allow us to perform reverse sorting in Unix/Linux.

Now suppose you have the following command

$ cat myfile.txt 

And you want to do the reverse sort of the output of this then u can try

$ cat myfile.txt | sort -r