Re: sed problem

[Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>]

sed 's/|/\n/g'

(( I like using single quotes, because you're less likely to get
    characters like '\' and '$'  eaten by the shell ))



csoler@euskalnet.net wrote:
> 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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