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How to replace any char with newline char.
Hi,

How to replace any character in a file with a newline character using sed ..

Ex:
To replace ',' with newline

Input:
abcd,efgh,ijkl,mnop

Output:
abcd
efgh
ijkl
mnop

Thnx in advance.

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Sasidhar
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Code:
sed s/,/\\n/g file1
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Hi Prajith,

Its not working...

the o/p is something like this

abcdnefghn ...
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notice that 2 slashes before 'n'

its
Code:
sed s/,/\\n/g file1
NOT
Code:
sed s/,/\n/g file1
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Code:
sed 's/,/\
/g' _somefile > some_new file
** yes it should be split into two lines like this
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try this

tr "," "\n" <input_file> Output
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