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# 1  
Old 05-07-2007
SED to convert ~ in a file to newline
Hi,

I have a .txt file which has a tilde(~) in it.
All that I want is to break into a newline whenever there is an occurence of '~'.
I have tried SED to do that but I could not succeed.

I would appreciate if I can get a shell script(ksh) for this problem real quick.

Thanks in advance.

-Raj.
# 2  
Old 05-07-2007
one way:
Code:
awk 'BEGIN{FS="~" ;OFS="\n"} {$1=$1}1' file

or another:
Code:
tr '~' '\n' < file

# 3  
Old 05-07-2007
Thanks dude.
I think 'tr' is the better way of doing it.
# 4  
Old 05-08-2007
Did u try this in sed?

Code:
sed 's/~/\n/g' filename

# 5  
Old 05-08-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by jacoden
Did u try this in sed?

Code:
sed 's/~/\n/g' filename

Not all version of sed support \n
Code:
sed "s/~/\\
/g" filename

# 6  
Old 03-30-2009
The sed in FreeBSD (tcsh by default) is one such version.

Said sed doesn't support \n on the command line.
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