How to put every word in a new line in a file

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02-13-2009, 12:39 PM	#1
SentralOrigin Member Registered: Jul 2005 Distribution: Gentoo, Ubuntu Posts: 318 Rep:	How to put every word in a new line in a file I have a file with a bunch of words in it, separated by a single space. How do I make each word go on a separate line for each one and remove the spaces?

02-13-2009, 12:53 PM	#2
theNbomr LQ 5k Club Registered: Aug 2005 Distribution: OpenSuse, Fedora, Redhat, Debian Posts: 5,399 Blog Entries: 2 Rep:	Code: sed -i s/\\s/\\n/g filename.txt --- rod.

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