How to replace any char with newline char.

mightysam · #1 (**permalink**) 06-15-2006

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.

Regards,
Sasidhar

prajith78 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-15-2006

Code:

sed s/,/\\n/g file1

mightysam · #3 (**permalink**) 06-15-2006

Hi Prajith,

Its not working...

the o/p is something like this

abcdnefghn ...

prajith78 · #4 (**permalink**) 06-15-2006

notice that 2 slashes before 'n'

its

Code:

sed s/,/\\n/g file1

NOT

Code:

sed s/,/\n/g file1

reborg · #5 (**permalink**) 06-15-2006

Code:

sed 's/,/\
/g' _somefile > some_new file

** yes it should be split into two lines like this

yahyaaa · #6 (**permalink**) 09-18-2008

try this

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

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