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# 8  
Old 09-19-2008
Code:
#!/bin/sh

A='text1,text2,text3'

echo $A | sed -e 's/,/\n\t\t/g'

Produces the following:

text1
text2
text3

Still have the offset of the tab, but now it's not the trailing words but the first

UPDATE:

I guess you could do the following to get that first word to get tabbed properly:

echo -e "\t\t$A" | sed -e 's/,/\n\t\t/g'
# 9  
Old 09-22-2008
Or you could add 's/^/\t\t/;' to the beginning of the sed script. The original script replaces commas with the substitution string, and doesn't touch the places where there is not a comma (such as, for example, beginning of line).
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