how to add new line character

ravi.sadani19 · November 21, 2007, 8:04am

Hello All,

I want to add new line character to each of the line '\n'.what is the unix command i can use to do that.File is like below

a|b|c
c|d|f

sunsri01 · November 21, 2007, 1:49pm

Try the following.

cat filename | sed 's/$/\\n/g' > newfilename

prowla · November 21, 2007, 3:59pm

Many systems have a ux2dos (or unix2dos) command.

varungupta · November 23, 2007, 2:26am

Hey,

You can use the following three commands to add a new line to a file.

echo "\n" >> file.outor

echo -e "\n" >> file.out

echo >> yourfile

Thanks