Replace literal \n with newline

[David Bendit]

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.
> 

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