Replace literal \n with newline

[Micah DesJardins]

Have you tried something like:

perl -i -pe 's/\\n/\n/g' yournessusoutput.xml

?

(Careful, that will change the original file)

Micah

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:14 PM, David Bendit <DarkElf109 at ibendit.com> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I'm trying to pull useful information out of a nessus report file (which is
> just XML), and everything works fine except the informational data portions.
> They're stored with string literal \n, and I can't figure out an easy way to
> convert those to actual newlines. With tr, the best I can get is removing
> all the n's, and I think it may be because bash is confused at the order of
> escaping, if that makes any sense. Any help is appreciated.
>
> -David Bendit
>
>
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