Replace literal \n with newline

[Matt Graham]

After a long battle with technology, David Bendit wrote:
> 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

tr converts single chars to single chars, or deletes single chars.  sed would 
probably work.  "sed -e 's/\\n/\n/g' < infile > outfile" will do what you 
want, I think.

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