Howdy.
I'm trying to figure out how to use tr or sed to replace all the newline
characters in a text stream, as in `cat file | sed ...`

I've tried the following:
        cat file | tr "\012" "\\n"
        cat file | sed -e "{s/\n/\\n/}"

But neither of them work.
Any suggestions?

Thanks.
Hyrum

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