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I am effectively looking to do the reverse of this question:

Turn list into single line with delimiter

where the best answer which worked for me was:

sed -e :a -e '$!N; s/\n/ | /; ta' mydoc > mydoc2

Any help much appreciated.

Inian
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user3252661
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    Please provide your input and expected output in this question. All information to answer a question should be contained in the question. – Quasímodo May 29 '20 at 15:23

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Just use the tr command to change replace the <space>|<space> sequence with a newline character

tr -s ' | ' '\n' < mydoc > mydoc2
Inian
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    @Quasimodo, this answer (or at least its standard version tr -s '| ' '[\n*]') would translate any sequence of one or more SPC, | or LF characters to one LF (contrary to what the first paragraph says) so would address both cases. – Stéphane Chazelas May 29 '20 at 15:31
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using awk :

awk 'BEGIN { RS="|"} { gsub(" ","");print >> "mydoc2" }' mydoc
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