How do I replace the newline character in "vi" editor.

I want to replace the string " \n" (ie, Blank followed by NewLine) with " " . How do I do this?

I want to try this from vi editor and then using "sed".


Thanks,

If you want to marge rows ( for exp. row 1 to 20 ) do:
:1,20 j

tr "\n" " " < filename

But, I want to replace the newline character only if it is followed by a blank space.

ie, I wan to replace "blankspace\n" with "blankspace" and dont want to replace (say, ";\n")

Thank u verymuch for your response

What i interpreted from your question is that you have a file in which the text is somewhat as shown

\n
sdsdjfsjnfj \n asdmkasmdkamdk \n
sdmfksdmfksd \n
\n
masdkak \n
\n

and now you want to replace the " \n" with ""
so you can try the search and replace command i.e
:%s/ \\n//g
I tried this on solaris and it worked fine.

It didn't work on Linux.

Note where "\n" is new line. It seems u are taking "\n" as a string of "\" and character "n".

Thanks,