Re: simple text formatting

[Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 07:37, 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.

for word in `cat file`
do
	echo $word
done > new_file

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