SED to convert ~ in a file to newline - Shell Programming and Scripting

ntekupal · #1 (**permalink**) 05-07-2007

Hi,

I have a .txt file which has a tilde(~) in it.
All that I want is to break into a newline whenever there is an occurence of '~'.
I have tried SED to do that but I could not succeed.

I would appreciate if I can get a shell script(ksh) for this problem real quick.

Thanks in advance.

-Raj.

reborg · #2 (**permalink**) 05-07-2007

one way:

Code:

awk 'BEGIN{FS="~" ;OFS="\n"} {$1=$1}1' file

or another:

Code:

tr '~' '\n' < file

ntekupal · #3 (**permalink**) 05-07-2007

Thanks dude.
I think 'tr' is the better way of doing it.

dennis.jacob · #4 (**permalink**) 05-07-2007

Did u try this in sed?

Code:

sed 's/~/\n/g' filename

anbu23 · #5 (**permalink**) 05-07-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by jacoden

Did u try this in sed?

Code:

sed 's/~/\n/g' filename

Not all version of sed support \n

Code:

sed "s/~/\\
/g" filename

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