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[Mark J. Reed]

P.S. All of the example command lines read the |-separated file on
standard input and write the newline-separated file on standard
output, so the usual way to run it would be
	command-line <inputfile >outputfile
e.g.
	perl -pe '$_ = join("\n", split(/\s*\|\s*/));' <pipe_dream >line_up

\ 
\ sed (strips whitespace - note that part of the command is on the second line):
\ 	sed -e 's/[ 	]*\|[ 	]*/\
\ /g'
\ 
\ awk (doesn't strip whitespace):
\ 	awk -F\| '{for (i=0; i<=NF; ++i) {printf "%s\n", $i}}' 
\ 
\ perl (strips whitespace):
\ 	perl -pe '$_ = join("\n",split(/\s*\|\s*/));'



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