Convert .CSV file to .txt file using bash

Question

I have a CSV with lots of lines delimited by comma. I have to convert it to text.

66012523,39,Feb 02 2015 05:19AM,
66012523,39,Feb 02 2015 09:53AM,
66012523,39,Feb 02 2015 01:38PM,

I used command cp source.csv destination.csv and also cat source.csv > destination.txt but it does output in the same format witch each line coming in new one. It just gets appended together. It outputs like

66012523,39,Feb 02 2015 05:19AM,66012523,39,Feb 02 2015 09:53AM,66012523,39,Feb 02 2015 01:38PM

How do I make them to output each line in newline. Please help.

Answer 1

I hypothesise that the first block in your question is what you WANT, and what you actually HAVE is

66012523,39,Feb 02 2015 05:19AM,66012523,39,Feb 02 2015 09:53AM,66012523,39,Feb 02 2015 01:38PM

So what you want to do, I hypothesise, is split this up into separate lines.

Am I right?

This is a bit rough-and-ready but it works. Relies on each group ending "M," and there being no other "M,"s in the text - which there aren't but I wouldn't call it robust.

sed s/M,/'\n'/g source.csv