split a line using a token

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hi all,
is ksh, is there a way to split a line so it displays the output on seperate lines from a grep command ??

i have a script which greps for "responseTime" from log files but when i echo the output of the grep command it displays all occurances of the string all on one line which is hard to read.

i.e it currently displays this :

[12/4/08 16:18:31:298 NZDT] 4c4a8d responseTime [307 millis] [12/4/08 16:19:47:005 NZDT] 1affb08 responseTime[692 millis] [12/4/08 16:19:47:416 NZDT] 1affb08 responseTime[692 millis]

and i wanted to display it in this way :

[12/4/08 16:18:31:298 NZDT] 4c4a8d responseTime [307 millis]
[12/4/08 16:19:47:005 NZDT] 1affb08 responseTime[692 millis]
[12/4/08 16:19:47:416 NZDT]1affb08 responseTime[692 millis]

thanks in advance.

2

Tsk, just answered my own question, this is what needs to be done :

grep "whatever" filename | while read LINE; do echo $LINE; done;

3

i don't think it will work.. its not working for me

4

this simple sed code worked for me...

sed 's/millis] /&\
/g' input_file
5

Use double quotes.

# var=$(grep response file)
# echo $var
[12/4/08 16:18:31:298 NZDT] 4c4a8d responseTime [307 millis] [12/4/08 16:19:47:005 NZDT] 1affb08 responseTime[692 millis] [12/4/08 16:19:47:416 NZDT]1affb08 responseTime[692 millis]
# echo "$var"
[12/4/08 16:18:31:298 NZDT] 4c4a8d responseTime [307 millis]
[12/4/08 16:19:47:005 NZDT] 1affb08 responseTime[692 millis]
[12/4/08 16:19:47:416 NZDT]1affb08 responseTime[692 millis]