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I did some past data manipulations using awk so I could join lines in order to use grep. Now that I have newly searched data I need to insert a new line break to use further statistical packages. I have a data base that looks something like this:

Code:

>bat_aaj05a03;AGAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCAGGATGAACCCTGGCGGCGTGCCTAAT
>bat_aaj05a06;GTTTGACGGTACCATACCAGAAAGGGACGGCTAAATACGTGCCAG
>bat_aaj05a05;AGAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCAGGATGAACGCTGGCGGCGTGCCTAAT

And I want it to look like this

Code:

>bat_aaj05a03
AGAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCAGGATGAACCCTGGCGGCGTGCCTAAT
>bat_aaj05a06
GTTTGACGGTACCATACCAGAAAGGGACGGCTAAATACGTGCCAG
>bat_aaj05a05
AGAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCAGGATGAACGCTGGCGGCGTGCCTAAT

I tried opening it in excel and delimiting it, but that inserted a tab after my header, which doesn't work in the statistical software I'm using.

Thanks so much for all your help!!

Code:

gawk -F";" -vOFS="\n" '{$1=$1}{print}' file

Code:

sed 's/;/\n/' urfile

awk 'gsub(/;/,"\n")' urfile

Hi,

tr command also used for replace the ; into newline.

tr ";" "\n" < file


output:
----------
bat_aaj05a03
AGAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCAGGATGAACCCTGGCGGCGTGCCTAAT
bat_aaj05a06
GTTTGACGGTACCATACCAGAAAGGGACGGCTAAATACGTGCCAG
bat_aaj05a05
AGAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCAGGATGAACGCTGGCGGCGTGCCTAAT