help with regular expressions

[arkaine23]

I'm trying to edit a small line of text with sed. I need to take the field seperator which is a : and make it become a new line anywhere there is a :

Edit: Got the job done with awk

[bwkaz]

sed -e 's/:/\n/g didn't work?

Maybe sed -e 's/:/
/g' might (with the embedded return)...

How'd you do it with awk?

[baldguy]

was it this?
awk '{RS=":"; print;}' file.txt

[elote_caliente]

you can do it very easily like so:
cat [filename] | tr ':' '\n'
:o