Very Computer

: I've got a bit of a problem that I need resolved.
: I've got a file in the following format :

: -
: r1field1    r1field2    r1field3    r1field4    .....
: r2field1    r2field2    r2field3    r2field4    .....
: -

: and I need it in the format  :

: -
: r1field1
: r1field2
: r1field3
: r1field4
: .
: .
: .
: .

: r2field1
: r2field2
: r2field3
: r2field4
: .
: .
: .
: .
: -

: Can anybody help me?

: Thanks very much in advance.

if the fields are whitespace separated and in the proper order
tr -s '         ' '\012' < input > output
will translate all blanks and tabs ( the first ' ' contains a blank and
a tab) into a single line feed.

: <-------------------------------------------------------------------->
: | Toby Blake                            Public Health Sciences,      |
: |                                       Edinburgh University,        |

!: r1field1    r1field2    r1field3    r1field4    .....
!: r2field1    r2field2    r2field3    r2field4    .....

!: and I need it in the format  :

!: r1field1
!: r1field2
!: r1field3
!: r1field4
!: .
!: r2field1
!: r2field2
!: r2field3
!: r2field4
!: .
!if the fields are whitespace separated and in the proper order
!tr -s '        ' '\012' < input > output
!will translate all blanks and tabs ( the first ' ' contains a blank and
!a tab) into a single line feed.

        Don't worry about order and number of fields.  Following perl
script should be robust enough:

        perl -ne 's/\s+/\n/g ; print'  <filename>

cat <filename> | nawk '{for (i=1;i <= NF; i++) printf("%s\n",$i); printf("\n\n")}'

Farook.
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