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Old 01-28-2008
Karthikeyan_113 Karthikeyan_113 is offline
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Thumbs up Try this....
Input file:-
$ > cat 123.txt
unixsrv1:unixsrv2:unixsrv3:mercury:mercury01:sunprd01:sunprd02:hpprod07:ibmprod43
$ >

Command:-
$ > cat 123.txt | tr -s ":" "\n" > 123_1.txt
$ >

Output:-
$ > cat 123_1.txt
unixsrv1
unixsrv2
unixsrv3
mercury
mercury01
sunprd01
sunprd02
hpprod07
ibmprod43
$ >

Thanks,
Karthik.