Thursday, September 29, 2011

Replacing space with newline

There are a few ways to achieve that:

1. sed
$ echo "one two three" | sed 's/ /\n/g'
one
two
three
2. awk
$ echo "one two three" | awk '$1=$1' RS= OFS="\n"
one
two
three
3. tr
$ echo "one two three" | tr -s ' ' '\n'
one
two
three
3 ways to do it, have fun
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2 comments:

  1. BCLNovember 05, 2011

    Thks for post

    a more generic space mgt with tr is to use label, it will work whatever is space or tab

    echo "one two three" | tr -s '[:space:]' '\n'
    one
    two
    three


    a more generic char mgt with tr is to use octal

    echo "one two three" | tr -s '\040' '\012'
    one
    two
    three

    an easy way to caych octal value is od

    echo "one two three" | od -cto1
    0000000 o n e t w o t h r e e \n
    157 156 145 040 164 167 157 040 164 150 162 145 145 012
    0000016

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  2. AnonymousNovember 26, 2013

    Just a heads up, the sed version won't work on a mac.

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10748453/replace-comma-with-newline-in-sed

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