[ale] SED

[Mike Fletcher]

>>>>> "Les" == Les Neste <lesneste at atlnewmedia.com> writes:

    Les> At 04:30 PM 11/30/99 -0500, 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

    Les> Does it have to be sed?  How about Perl?

    Les> cat filename | perl -w splitline.pl

    Les> where splitline.pl contains the following

    Les> while( <> ) { chomp; s/,/\n/g; print; }

        No need for a file or cat (or whitespace, for that matter :)

perl -le 'BEGIN{undef$/};$_=<>;y/\n//d;s/,/\n/g;print' filename

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