sed 分隔符打印,使用SED用分隔符来分割字符串

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.