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    question with +922 total votes: How do I split a string on a delimiter in Bash? Commented Jun 17, 2016 at 14:57
  • ls /path/to/ | xargs echo | sed 's/\s\+/\n/g' Commented Sep 26, 2018 at 8:40
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    What produces that text, and what do you want to use it for? If it's a list of actual pathnames, just replacing spaces by newlines may obviously mangle pathnames that contain embedded spaces, such as /User/myself/VirtualBox VMs/. Commented Feb 14, 2021 at 22:33
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    @Kusalananda Gilles has written an excelent answer here (see unix.stackexchange.com/a/105655/49721) explaining why "A space-separated list of file names doesn't really work: what if one of the file names contained spaces?" Commented Feb 15, 2021 at 9:47