Using sed to split a string with a delimiter

Question

I have a string in the following format   string1 string2 string3 string4 string5  I m trying to use sed to split the string on   and print each sub-string on a new line   Here is what I m doing   cat   Desktop myfile txt   sed s     n    This prints   string1 string2 string3 string4 string5   How can I get it to split on each delimiter

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Using  n in sed is non-portable  The portable way to do what you want with sed is   sed  s      g    Desktop myfile txt   but in reality this isn t a job for sed anyway  it s the job tr was created to do   tr          lt    Desktop myfile txt

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This should do it   cat   Desktop myfile txt   sed s     n g

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If you re using gnu sed then you can use  x0A for newline   sed  s    x0A g    Desktop myfile txt

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This might work for you  GNU sed    sed  y    n   file   or perhaps   sed y      n   file

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To split a string with a delimiter with GNU sed you say   sed  s delimiter  n g        GNU sed   For example  to split using   as a delimiter     sed  s    n g   lt  lt  lt   he llo you  he llo you   Or with a non-GNU sed     sed   s      n g   lt  lt  lt   he llo you  he llo you     In this particular case  you missed the g after the substitution  Hence  it is just done once  See     echo  string1 string2 string3 string4 string5    sed s     n g string1 string2 string3 string4 string5   g stands for global and means that the substitution has to be done globally  that is  for any occurrence  See that the default is 1 and if you put for example 2  it is done 2 times  etc   All together  in your case you would need to use   sed  s     n g    Desktop myfile txt   Note that you can directly use the sed     file syntax  instead of unnecessary piping  cat file   sed

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Using simply tr      tr        n   lt  lt  lt  string1 string2 string3 string4 string5 string1 string2 string3 string4 string5   If you really need sed      sed  s    n g   lt  lt  lt  string1 string2 string3 string4 string5 string1 string2 string3 string4 string5

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