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Old 01-07-2011
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Hi everyone , i am new in shell scripting and i want to do a simple job.
A have in a file a text that looks like :

4770 maniac 20 0 13680 312 240 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pro 4770 maniac 20 0 23448 312 240 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pro 4770 maniac 20 0 33216 312 240 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pro

and i want to break it in three lines:

4770 maniac 20 0 13680 312 240 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pro
4770 maniac 20 0 23448 312 240 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pro
4770 maniac 20 0 33216 312 240 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pro

Any help would be appreciated Smilie
# 2  
Old 01-07-2011
Code:
sed 's/pro[ ]/pro\
/g' inputFile

This User Gave Thanks to anurag.singh For This Post:
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# 3  
Old 01-07-2011
AWK....
Code:
awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i=="pro"){printf $i"\n"}else {printf $i FS}}}'  inputfile

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