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Using tr, replace each repeated space character() with a single new-line(n) character.

tr -s ' ' 'n'< infile > outfile

But I think you want something like this?

1 2 3 4 1 a #
a b c d --> 2 b $
# $ @ % 3 c @
 4 d %

With awk we could do:

awk ' for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) RtoC[i]= (RtoC[i]? RtoC[i] FS $i: $i) 
 END for (i in RtoC) print RtoC[i] ' infile

This joins each same filed number positon into together and in END prints the result that would be first row in first column , second row in second column, etc. Of course the input file is limited to your memory size.

You could simply do this through grep. By default grep, would print the match in a separate newline .

grep -oP 'S+' infile > outfile

OR

grep -o '[^[:space:]]+' infile > outfile

You could also use the fmt command:

~$ cat f
PAPER TEAM MANISH NISHA GARIMA JYOUTI
~$ fmt -1 f
PAPER
TEAM
MANISH
NISHA
GARIMA
JYOUTI

With GNU datamash:

$ datamash -W transpose <file
PAPER
TEAM
MANISH
NISHA
GARIMA
JYOUTI

You can also do this using sed:

$ sed -e 's/ */n/g' file1 > file2

NOTE: Doesn't handle the situation where the words contain spaces.

Using awk, setting the output field separator (OFS) as the record (line) separator (RS):

awk 'OFS=RS;$1=$11' file > file2

Using a for loop:

for val in `cat file1` ; do echo $val >> file2; done;

You can also try using sed

$ sed -i.bak s@' '@'n'@g infile.txt

Please note that I am using @ as a separator for the substitution operation.
This will also create a backup file. In case you don't need a backup remove .bak

$ sed -i s@' '@'n'@g infile.txt

Python version:

python -c "import sys;lines=[l.replace(' ','n') for l in sys.stdin.readlines()];print(''.join(lines))" < input.txt > output.txt

This uses < redirection into python's stdin from input.txt and writes to output.txt using > redirection. The one-liner itself reads in all lines from stdin into a list of strings,where all spaces are replaced with newlines, and we rebuild whole text using .join() function.

Alternative approach to avoid multiple spaces in series being replaced with newlines is to use .split() to break line into list of words. That way , we can ensure that each word is separated only by one newline

python -c "import sys;lines=['n'.join(l.strip().split()) for l in sys.stdin.readlines()];print('n'.join(lines))" < input.txt > output.txt

Using xargs, (stolen from souravc's answer):

xargs -n 1 < File1 > File2

Or if any minor reformatting is needed, use printf format strings as however might be needed:

xargs printf '%sn' < File1 > File2

My solution would be:

#!/bin/bash
cols=$(head -1 file.txt | wc -w)
for i in $(seq 1 $cols); do
cut -d ' ' -f$i file.txt | tr 'n' ' ' | sed s'/.$//'
echo
done