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. > Thanks > Mike > I don't know if this is optimal: for x in `cat file`; do echo $x; done