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# 1  
Old 09-14-2009
How to remove \ character
Dear Members,

I have a file which is a single line file. It has "\" character and i need to replace this character with a new line character.

How can we do this?

I tried with sed but it did not work.

Code:
sed 's/[\]/"\n"/g' t1 > t2

Thanks
Sandeep
# 2  
Old 09-14-2009
Code:
echo 'foo\bar' | tr '\\' '\n'

# 3  
Old 09-14-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Code:
echo 'foo\bar' | tr '\\' '\n'

Thanks vgersh, it works now. You are a Genius. Smilie
# 4  
Old 09-15-2009
you can alos modify a little to your own code.

Code:
sed 's/\\/\n/g' t1>t2


regards,
Sanjay
Last edited by sanjay.login; 09-15-2009 at 02:26 AM..
 
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