Substitution and newline in file 1

[moria6]

Thanks to one of the helpful people in this forum I learned how to use "tr" for substitution. What I'd like to do now is add a newline to what I'm doing.

I have <filename> containing:

http://www.slashdot.org|http://www.digg.com|http://www.google.com|.....

after using

cat <filename> | tr "|" "\n"

I get

http://www.slashdot.org

http://www.digg.com

http://www.google.com

.
.
.


What I'd like is

http://www.slashdot.org

http://www.digg.com

http://www.google.com

.

.

Being relatively new to scripting I tried

cat <filename> | tr "|" "\n\n"

which gave me the same results as the original cmd. Also tried |'ing output into sed but didn't get it to work.

Any tips on how to modify the cmd or to accomplish it another way would be appreciated.

TIA!

maurie

 

[feherke]

Hi

Not possible with [tt]tr[/tt], use [tt]sed[/tt] :

sed 's/|/\n\n/g' /input/file

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[moria6]

Worked perfectly. Thanks, Feherke!


maurie