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# 1  
Old 06-21-2013
Substitute \n with carriage return

Hello all,


I've a flat file in the following format:

PHP Code:
AB\001\CDED\001\ABC\001\nEG\001\HIJF\001\EFG\001\nHI\003\HIUL\003\HIJ\003 

And I want to substitute \n with the carriage return. Any help is appreciated!

Regards,
- Seth
# 2  
Old 06-21-2013
Code:
tr '\n' '\r' < input > output

# 3  
Old 06-21-2013
Hi, Thank-you for the response.

Its actually throwing out a control-M at the end of the file.


PHP Code:
AB\001\CDED\001\ABC\001\nEG\001\HIJF\001\EFG\001\nHI\003\HIUL\003\HIJ\003^
# 4  
Old 06-21-2013
Are you sure your file is not DOS format?
# 5  
Old 06-21-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by sethmj
Its actually throwing out a control-M at the end of the file.
That ^M character is a Carriage return
# 6  
Old 06-21-2013
But I want to replace
Code:
\n

to carriage return. I was hoping to get the output something like this:

PHP Code:
AB\001\CDED\001\ABC\001
EG
\001\HIJF\001\EFG\001
HI
\003\HIUL\003\HIJ\003 

# 7  
Old 06-21-2013
Code:
awk '{gsub(/\\n/,RS)}1' file

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