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Yes I'm attempting to do some IT at uni.

How do I make a new line?

sed '/:.*:/{s/:/\
/;}' file
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I am using Putty and it wont perform this command. It is returning this reply:

-bash-2.05b$ sed '/:.*:/{s/:/\/;}' ./assignment1/question3/a.txt
sed: -e...

[QUOTE=radoulov;302179620]awk 'NF==3?sub(/:/,RS):1' FS=: fileUse awk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.

This is kind of working but it is sometimes deleting the second field rather than just...

I want to list the occurence of particular characters in a line. my file looks like this

a,b,c,d
e,f,g
h,y:e,g,y s
f;g,s,w

and I want to count how many commas are in each line so the file in...

Basically I want to change this:

a:b
c:d:e
f:g
h:i:j
k:l

into

a:b
c
d:e
f:g
h
i:j
k:l

so like if there is two :'s in one line making the first into a new line. If anyone knows...