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# 1  
Old 03-26-2008
Need to substitue space with \n
I have a file with a single line in it as below.

field1 field2 field3

Different fields separated by spaces. I need the output as below.

field1
field2
field3

Any sed/awk solution you can suggest?
# 2  
Old 03-26-2008
cat <filename> | sed 's/ /\n/g'
# 3  
Old 03-26-2008
The output of sed 's/ /\n/g' is like below.

field1nfield2nfield3

I'm working in AIX. ksh is the shell.
# 4  
Old 03-26-2008
Try:

Code:
tr " " "\n"

Regards
# 5  
Old 03-26-2008
tr works. But I'm trying to see if there are other solutions, especially sed.

Why is the sed 's/ /\n/g' not working for me?
# 6  
Old 03-26-2008
This depends on the sed you are using, with the traditional seds you can't do that.
You can achieve this as follow (in 2 lines!):

Code:
sed 's/ /\
/g'

Regards
# 7  
Old 03-27-2008
@Franklin,

It works for me!! I guess I'm using a traditional sed!!

Thanks!!
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