AWK to have each word in a text written on a new line

[deepagovind]

Hello all,

I have a text file that looks like this:

Today, tomorrow, perl,
\birds<7>, \animals<4>, awk, gawk


I wish to write it to a file in this manner

Today,
tomorrow,
perl,
\birds<7>,
\animals<4>,
awk,
gawk


I tried the following:
awk '{sub(" ", "\n", $0)}' space > newline.out

This did not work..

I greatly appreciate all inputs!!

Thanks!

 

[PHV]

The awk way:
awk '{gsub(/ +/,"\n");print}' space > newline.out
The tr way:
tr -s ' ' '\n' <space >newline.out

Hope This Help, PH.
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[futurelet]

1. Change ouput field separator to newline.
2. For each line, force $0 to be rebuilt with OFS between each field by assigning to $1.

BEGIN{OFS="\n"}
{$1=$1;print}

 

[tdatgod]

awk '{ for (x = 1 ; x <= NF ; x ++ ) { print $x } }' file > file.out