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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: Convert newlines to something else.
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Date: 7 Feb 91 17:19:42 GMT
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From the keyboard of tvz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt):
:How does one convert newlines to something else in a text file? I cannot
:figure out how to do it with sed, if it is possible at all.

Dealing with \n's in sed is not as straightforward as you might wish.
Maybe someone will post a sed solution.

I would use the tr program if you want single char translations, like
perhaps 

	% tr '\012' '/' <infile >outfile

If you want more complex changes, I would use perl, perhaps like this:

	% perl -pe 's/\n/foobar /' <infile >outfile

--tom
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