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# 1  
Old 05-15-2013
Removing whitespaces from a line
HI
I want to remove white spaces from a line
I have a file like
Code:
# cat /clsep
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

I need the output like
0
1
2
3
4
.
.
.
15

I feel sed command cannot be used..
I went through the man page of awk command and found
Code:
cat /clsep | awk '{ print NF}'

It prints the number of columns but am unable to proceed after this..
Please teach/suggest a way to implement my requirement..
# 2  
Old 05-15-2013
Code:
[root@host user]# sed 's/ /\
/g' file

Code:
cat file | tr ' ' '\n'

# 3  
Old 05-15-2013
perl
Hey!!!

Try this out,

Code:
perl -ne '$_ =~ s/\s/\n/go;print $_;' input_file

Cheers!!!
-R
# 4  
Old 05-15-2013
Code:
awk '{$1=$1}1' OFS="\n" /clsep

OFS="\n" Set the output filed separator to new line, instead of space (default).
{$1=$1} Reconstruct the data, so that it uses the new OFS
1 the pattern one is always true, and since no action is specified, do the default, print.

PS No need to cat the file to awk, when awk can read it itself.
Last edited by Jotne; 05-15-2013 at 04:46 AM..
# 5  
Old 05-15-2013
funny one Smilie

Code:
 
printf "%s\n" $(cat filename)

# 6  
Old 05-15-2013
Code:
tr ' ' '\n' < file

Code:
awk '{print $1}' RS=" " file

This User Gave Thanks to MadeInGermany For This Post:
Priya Amaresh
# 7  
Old 05-15-2013
I second balajesuri's and MadeInGermany's tr suggestion.

Unless there's more to your data than a simple space delimiter, all of the awk, sed, and perl suggestions are unwarranted.

Regards,
Alister
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