print each field in a row

[lawrenzo]

Hi,

I want to use awk to print the output of a command or file which is delimited with a space:

so

command

I would like to print

I appreciate the help.

Thanks

Chris.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris:

# echo "f1 f2 f3 f4"|awk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) {print $i}}'

...or, of course:

# awk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) {print $i}}' file

Regards!

...JRF...

[Dennis Handly]

You can also use tr(1) to change blanks to newlines:
command | tr " " "\012"

[Patrick Ware_1]

I want to do exactly the opposite. How can I take the following:

outputa
outputb
outputc


and turn it into this:

outputa outputb outputc

[Dennis Handly]

>Patrick: I want to do exactly the opposite

Your thread is here:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1206784

[Patrick Ware_1]

I actually made that thread AFTER the post above AFTER I realized that a new thread would be a better way.