From: csoler@euskalnet.net
To: Jens Knoell <jens@surefoot.com>
Cc: Linux Admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sed problem
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 08:42:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35a8138f03.38f0335a81@euskalnet.net> (raw)
Hi Jens,
----- Mensaje Original -----
De: "Jens Knoell" <jens@surefoot.com>
Fecha: Jueves, Marzo 4, 2004 6:08 pm
Asunto: sed problem
> Oke... sed-hell again.
>
> Case: I have a file that has lines separated by pipe chars. I need
> to split
> it back into a line-by-line file. So I tried this (the ^M has been
> enteredby pushing Ctrl+V, Enter):
> echo "This|should|be|on|separate|lines" | sed -e "s/|/^M/g"
>
> The result:
> linesate
>
> I'm sure I'm missing something, but hours of googling didn't get me
> anywhere. Any ideas?
I think awk fits better for this task, IMHO of course :-)
csoler@gudu$ echo "This|should|be|on|separate|lines" | awk -F"|" '{for
(i=1; i<= NF; i++) print $i}'
This
should
be
on
separate
lines
I hope this helps you...
Cheers,
César
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next reply other threads:[~2004-03-05 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-05 7:42 csoler [this message]
2004-03-05 8:55 ` sed problem urgrue
2004-03-09 8:46 ` Stephen Samuel
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2004-03-04 17:08 Jens Knoell
2004-03-04 17:17 ` Glynn Clements
2004-03-04 17:25 ` Matt Hemingway
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