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Old 02-23-2005
Writing data onto new lines based on terminator
I have a requirement, where based on a particular character on a single line, the data has to be written to new lines...

Ex: abccd$xyzll$bacc$kkklkjl$albc
My output should be
abccd$
xyzll$
bacc$
kkklkjl$
albc

Can someone help on this.
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Old 02-23-2005
Let's assume we have a file called "testfile" containing
abcde$fghij$klmno$pqrst$uvwxyz

The following nawk will do the job
Code:
nawk '{gsub(/\$/,"$\n"); print}' testfile

There are many other ways of doing this, but this would probably be easiest if you want to preserve the "$" in the output.

Cheers
ZB
 
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