[ale] SED substution question

[danscox at mindspring.com (Danny Cox)]

John,

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 11:43, John C wrote:
> I am trying to pipe a file through sed and substitute command with new
> lines.
> 
> Why won't this work, and what will?
> 
> cat filename | sed 's/,/\n/g'

	For a 1-1 substitute like this, I prefer tr:

	tr ',' '\012' <filename

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Danny


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