cutting a string into several lines in bash

bash cut
SIMEL picture SIMEL · Nov 3, 2010 · Viewed 32.8k times · Source

I want to take the path of the local directory and put each directory on the path in a different line. I've tried to do it using cut:

pwd | cut -f 1- -d\/ --output-delimiter=\n

but it doesn't change the '/'s into EOL, but puts n's instead. What am I doing wrong?

Answer

aioobe picture aioobe · Nov 3, 2010

This should do the trick

pwd | tr '/' '\n'

If you don't want an empty line in the beginning (due to the initial /) you could do

pwd | cut -b2- | tr '/' '\n'

Example:

#aioobe@r60:~/tmp/files$ pwd
/home/aioobe/tmp/files
#aioobe@r60:~/tmp/files$ pwd | cut -b2- | tr '/' '\n'
home
aioobe
tmp
files

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