convert single line output to multiple line

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi all,

I have a single line output like below

 
echo $ips
10.26.208.28 10.26.208.26 10.26.208.27

want to convert above single line output as below format. Pls advice how to do ?

 
10.26.208.28
10.26.208.26
10.26.208.27

Regards
Kannan

2

If the value of the variable already has embedded newlines, then all you have to do is quote the variable. If not, you can use the tr utility to convert the embedded whitespace to newlines.

Regards,
Alister

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echo $ips | tr -s " " "\n"
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echo $ips|xargs -n1
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Thanks a lot all the reply got it now !!

regards
Kannan

6

Here's a way using pure shell builtins:

printf "%s\n" $ips
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echo $ip | perl -pe 's/ /\n/g'

echo $ip | sed 's/ /\n/g'
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