[ale] SED

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Thorsten Hofrichter wrote:
> 
> HAve a sed question.
> I have been trying to figure this out for a few minutes now
> how do I substitute a character for a new line
> example a file that contains a,b,c,d
> I need it to output
> a
> b
> c
> d
> I need to use sed for this and have tried doing
> cat filename | sed s/,/\\n/g
> I have read man pages but dont understant why that would not work
> Any ideas??
> Thanks in advance

Not sure why you HAVE to use sed, but this works for me:

sed 's/,/\^J/g' filename

seems to me, awk would be a better tool:

awk '{for (i=1; i<=NF;i++) { printf "%s\n", $i}}' filename

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