Shell Programming and Scripting

Code:

var="abc || ddfdfd fdfd || xxxx||"

to

Code:

abc 
ddfdfd fdfd
xxxx

Code:

sed 's/||/\n/g' <<<${var}

If you have a file

Code:

sed 's/||/\n/g' file

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To remove unnecessary spaces before and after pipes (||)

Code:

sed 's/ *|| */\n/g' file

Since you didn't use CODE tags when you posted what you wanted, SriniShoo couldn't tell whether your sample input string contained single spaces, multiple adjacent spaces, or combinations of spaces and tabs; and couldn't tell that you wanted the output to preserve the space after abc but not the space after ddfdfd fdfd.

And, now that we know that you want to preserve some of the spaces and discard some of the spaces, I have no idea how to write code to handle the general case for what you want. Please explain when spaces are supposed to be preserved and when spaces are supposed to be discarded. (And, always use CODE tags.)