After a long battle with technology, David Bendit wrote: > I'm trying to pull useful information out of a nessus report file (which > is just XML), and everything works fine except the informational data > portions. They're stored with string literal \n, and I can't figure out > an easy way to convert those to actual newlines. With tr, the best I can > get is removing all the n's
tr converts single chars to single chars, or deletes single chars. sed would probably work. "sed -e 's/\\n/\n/g' < infile > outfile" will do what you want, I think. -- Life is a persistent hallucination, Death a mere illusion. Taxes, however, are Objective Reality. My blog and resume: http://crow202.dyndns.org:8080/wordpress/ Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
