Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!munnari!vuwcomp!dsiramd!csnz!paul
From: paul@csnz.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Lines too long for vi and sed
Message-ID: <47@csnz.nz>
Date: 1 Aug 88 09:39:13 GMT
References: <7712@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: paul@csnz.UUCP (Paul Gillingwater)
Organization: Computer Sciences of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ
Lines: 15

In article <7712@cup.portal.com> compata@cup.portal.com writes:
>Is there a way to replace escape sequences with NLs, wholesale or selectively?
>
>Dave Close, Compata, Arlington, Texas
>compata@cup.portal.com

Wholesale method:

tr -s "\033*" "\012" <file1 >file2

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