Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:06:07:21:02-0400] scribed: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:37:57PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > } Hi, > } > } I have a file in this format of words: > } > } joe jill bill bob frank tom harry > } > } and want to convert the file to this format: > } > } joe > } jill > } bill > } bob > } frank > } tom > } harry > } > } Is there an easy way to this? The file I have has hundreds of entries. > > The various for loop solutions are miserably inefficient and are overly > complex. The sed solution is almost reasonable. This is the simplest and > cleanest solution, however: > > tr ' ' '\012' < infile > outfile
Assuming, of course, that *all* whitespace is exactly one (1) character wide, and that *no* whitespace is a tab . . . -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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