[SOLVED] simple sed question

e64462 · 05-16-2010, 04:53 PM

I've been searching for a while now, but everything I've found wants to do the exact opposite of what I need.

I'm looking to replace all newlines in a file with the actual "\n" string.

So, for example. If my file contained:

Quote:

one
two
three

I would like the output after i type the command to be

Quote:

one\ntwo\nthree

Most of the help I've found is to do the exact opposite. I've tried tr and sed, but I'm not abundantly familiar with regex does anyone have a suggestion?

sycamorex · 05-16-2010, 05:19 PM

The following should work

Code:

sed -e :a -e ';$!N;s/\n/\\n/;ta' file

e64462 · 05-16-2010, 05:27 PM

UGH! you sir are a saint. Thanks a million!

SuperJediWombat! · 05-17-2010, 08:03 AM

http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/rmnl-rem...-sam-ssam-p65/