spliting up sentences

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1

hello,

i'm looking to split up text into a list of words but can't figure it out, any help would be great.

thanks
steven

2

tr " " "\n" < filename #split space into newline

or

awk '{RS=","; print $0}' filename #split to new line wherever comma encountered

or

for f in (`cat filename`);do
echo $f
done

3

cheers for your help