Linear data to column data..script help seeked

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello

Take a look at following lines.
This is giving me an o/p all in one array where as i want the column to be printed.How can i do it?

e.g
I am getting:

1575028616......

whereas i want
1
5750
28616

I am writing this small piece and trying to get this column o/p in a CSV.

COLUMNS=2047 /usr/bin/ps -eo ppid | grep -v "PPID" > /tmp/ppid.txt
cat /tmp/ppid.txt | while read line
do
PPID=`echo $line |awk '{print $1}'`
echo $PPID
done

Kindly advice

Abhi

2

echo generally adds a training newline each time.

if not, you can try:

echo -e "$PPID\n"