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?
解决方案
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.