Listing words from a file on a Separate Line

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Hi,
I want to list all the words in my file on a separate line.
I am using the bourne(sh)/bourne again shell(bash).

Thanks,

theA

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I'm not sure I understand what you are looking to do. What kind of file is it? Can you give a small example?

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If you want each word in the file printed on a separate line, you can translate spaces to newlines with:

tr '[:space:]' '\n' < file