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what do you get when you run command?<br />
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try<br />
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sed 's/\\n/\/g'
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what do you get when you run command?

try

sed 's/\\n/\/g'

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My command doesn't modify the file at all.<br />
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Yours doesn't work; blackslash must be escaped.
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My command doesn't modify the file at all.

Yours doesn't work; blackslash must be escaped.

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 sed 's/\n//g'<br />
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doesn't do anything either. I'd expect it to turn the file into a single long line
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sed 's/\n//g'

doesn't do anything either. I'd expect it to turn the file into a single long line

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I'd use tr instead<br />
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<pre><code id="code-20-34874247-1">tr -d '\n' &lt;file</code></pre>
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sed 's/\\\n/\\/g' doesn't work. What should it be?
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sed 's/\\\n/\\/g' doesn't work. What should it be?

sed - replace backslash linefeed with backslash

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