Listing words from a file on a Separate Line

Astudent · #1 (**permalink**) 03-14-2001

Hi,
I want to list all the words in my file on a separate line.
I am using the bourne(sh)/bourne again shell(bash).

Thanks,

theA

98_1LE · #2 (**permalink**) 03-14-2001

I'm not sure I understand what you are looking to do. What kind of file is it? Can you give a small example?

PxT · #3 (**permalink**) 03-14-2001

If you want each word in the file printed on a separate line, you can translate spaces to newlines with:

tr '[:space:]' '\n' < file

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