That worked perfectly. Thanks! -David Matt Graham wrote: > 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. >