changing a ! to a \nC where \n is a newline

[eric.sweetman]

In article <5015 at alpha.cam.nist.gov>, Sean Coleman ) writes:
> I am trying to use the global substitution power in vi to 
> replace every occurrence of ! with a newline and a C (\nC)
> ... 
> How about the reverse, replace a newline with a character?

A shell solution to replacing a newline with another character is
to use the tr command which translates a single character into
another.  For example, cat forbar|tr '\012' ' '>tmp replaces
newlines in foobar with spaces and places output in tmp.  012
is the octal code for newline.  Other uses for tr include:
tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' translates lower to upper case
tr '()' '{}' translates open(close) parentheses to open(close)
             braces

Eric Sweetman     exs at pruxm.ATT.COM