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Originally posted by mekanik

here's a quick awk snippet which acts on a Field Separator -FS set as a pipe - "|"...this can be changed to a :, ,, ;...the output will separate each field by a newline...





endless possibilities...i would also like to note, that you don't have to set the positional parameters to names, you can just call them by their position if you want...

Is there a way to convert a single line delimited with : (colons) into a colum of lines with an arbitary number of fields? Like:

"1:2:3:4:5:6" into:
"1
2
3
4
5
6"

The " marks are just to be explicit when the line or column of lines begin and end.