How to insert a new line after a certain character in scripts

Question

I have the following file (example.txt):

blue(4) red(8) green(5) yellow(19) brown(60) black(5)

how can i achieve the following result in unix?

blue(4) 
red(8) 
green(5) 
yellow(19) 
brown(60) 
black(5)

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user601836 May 24, '12 at 14:07

4 answers

If you need to insert a new line after closing the brackets, try

sed 's/) \?/)\n/g' example.txt

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Lev levitsky May 24, '12 at 14:11

xargs -n 1 < example.txt

example.txt xargs -n 1, xargs .

, , -n 1 -n 2

-n max-args .

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Levon 24 '12 14:11

sed, :

sed 's/ /\n/g' example.txt

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0xC0000022L 24 '12 14:10

triclosan · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-24T14:10:21+0000

The following built-in sed script will replace the space with a new line and should solve your problem.

sed -i 's/ /\n/g' example.txt > example_out.txt