Re: [TCLUG:21356] line break in sed

[Adam Maloney <adamm@sihope.com>]

cat file | sed s/,/\n/

you may need to add a g to make it global through the line.

Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Sihope Communications

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Ben Luey wrote:

> I've a long one line text file formated like:
> 
> name1, name2, name3, ....... name9999
> 
> I want to format it like:
> 
> name1
> name2
> name3
> ....
> name9999
> 
> 
> I was thinking of doing:
> 
> sed \s\, \linebreak\g
> 
> But I don't know how to insert a line break -- I've tried \n, but no luck.
> The name page talks aobut /<newline> but that was treated as text. 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
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