How to add a new line in bash

divya_linux · 10-16-2007, 08:29 AM

Hi,

I was trying to write a script which replaces the 'spaces' of a text file with a 'new line' in bash.

Can anybody help me out with this.

Regards,
Divya

b0uncer · 10-16-2007, 08:56 AM

You probably want to get familiar with sed (or with awk, but I think sed does better here), it should be easy with it. It's easy in C also, but that's probably not what you're looking for..

ghostdog74 · 10-16-2007, 09:46 AM

Code:

tr ' ' '\n' < file

matthewg42 · 10-16-2007, 10:41 AM

The tr program is designed to replace some list of characters with another list. For example, to replace all lower case "a" "b" and "c" characters with upper case versions, you would use the command (prints results to standard output):

Code:

tr 'abc' 'ABC' < input_file

tr accepts c-style escapes for example \t to mean tab, \n to mean newline. So you could do this to replace all spaces and tabs with newlines:

Code:

tr ' \t' '\n\n' < input_file

divya_linux · 10-17-2007, 09:07 AM

that did the job...