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Old 11-21-2007
how to add new line character
Hello All,

I want to add new line character to each of the line '\n'.what is the unix command i can use to do that.File is like below

a|b|c
c|d|f
# 2  
Old 11-21-2007
Try the following.

cat filename | sed 's/$/\\n/g' > newfilename
# 3  
Old 11-21-2007
Many systems have a ux2dos (or unix2dos) command.
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Old 11-23-2007
MySQL
Hey,

You can use the following three commands to add a new line to a file.

echo "\n" >> file.outor

echo -e "\n" >> file.out

echo >> yourfile

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