How to replace any char with newline char.

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

How to replace any character in a file with a newline character using sed ..

Ex:
To replace ',' with newline

Input:

abcd,efgh,ijkl,mnop

Output:

abcd
efgh
ijkl
mnop

Thnx in advance.

Regards,
Sasidhar

2 
sed s/,/\\n/g file1
3

Hi Prajith,

Its not working...

the o/p is something like this

abcdnefghn ...

4

notice that 2 slashes before 'n'

its

sed s/,/\\n/g file1

NOT

sed s/,/\n/g file1
5 
sed 's/,/\
/g' _somefile > some_new file

** yes it should be split into two lines like this

6

try this

tr "," "\n" <input_file> Output