On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:03:02PM +0200, Moritz Mann wrote:
> I am trying to substitute some \n tags out of an String i.e.:
> 
> STRING=12345566 \n 3840423
> จจ
> now i try the sed or tr command and it does not work...
> 
> Do you have any ideas?
> 
> moritz

Try:
	echo -e "12345566 \n 3840423" | tr -d '\n'
or
	echo -e "12345566 \n 3840423" | tr -d '\012'

or maybe
	echo -e "123~45566 \n 384~0423" |\
	sed 's/~/super-duper-tilde/g' |\
	tr '\n' '~' |\
	sed -e 's/~/mongo-newline-replacement/g' -e 's/super-duper-tilde/~/g'

Ben
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