given below will work except tab at beginning.

 echo "Hello, how are you  doing today?" |  tr -s " " "\n"


Thanks,
Mahaveer
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:33 AM, eatsubway <koski...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> hello, i have a simple question.  I have a string which i would like to
> format by replacing spaces with newlines and tabs, and also adding a tab to
> the beginning.
>
> the variable...
> MyVar="Hello, how are you doing today?"
> I would like to print this....
>
>   Hello,
>   how
>   are
>   you
>   doing
>   today?
> --
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>
>
>
>


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Thanks,
Mahaveer

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