Split a text into multiple sentences in bash

Question

I would like to split text into sentences. Sentence ends with a dot and followed by whitespace character.

not my area of knowledge, but maybe this might be helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/918886/how-do-i-split-a-string-on-a-delimiter-in-bash — Devarsh Desai, Aug 04 '14 at 05:51
OT: Some might say that that definition of a sentence isn't very universal! E.g. Mr. Doe, right? — Biffen, Aug 04 '14 at 08:59

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 04 '14 at 06:08

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Using tr/sed:

tr '\n' ' ' <  input | sed -e 's/[.] \s*/. \n/g'

answered Aug 04 '14 at 06:08

perreal

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 04 '14 at 08:03

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This will print each separate sentence on a new line.

awk  'BEGIN{RS="\\. "}1' file

answered Aug 04 '14 at 08:03

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