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Hi - How can I use awk to take names (i.e. D,Liz W,Frank) listed in one row and display in a column? First and Last Name are seperated by a "," and a space defines each field. Example - Writing a shell to take a file named 'Employ' and list the names in the row to a column. Any help is appreciated.

Name: nails
Date: April 29, 2003 at 13:58:30 Pacific

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I think you want each name, first and last, in one column. You could use awk, but it's boring. How about this: #!/bin/ksh sed 's/,/ /g' data.file |xargs -n1 # end script Use sed to replace each comma with a space, and then pipe it to xargs listing one object per line. Regards, Nails

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