cut - cutting a string into several lines in bash

Question

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=

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

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4088450/cutting-a-string-into-several-lines-in-bash

Answer 1

This should do the trick

pwd | tr '/' '
'

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

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

Example:

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