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 > Here's another way: perl -p040 -e 's/\s/\n/' filename This works too: perl -p040 -l12 -e 'chomp' filename :) -- Paul Talacko