I have a file like this:
This
file
has
newlines
and
tabs
and I want to generate something that looks like this:
This\n\tfile\nhas\nnewlines\nand\n\ttabs
How can I easily get this output?
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John Kugelman
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Are there tabs in front of `file` and `tabs`? – Cyrus Apr 20 '20 at 17:04
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2Does this answer your question? [Replace newlines with literal \n](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38672680/replace-newlines-with-literal-n) – KamilCuk Apr 20 '20 at 17:07
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and then replace `\t` with `\\t`. – KamilCuk Apr 20 '20 at 17:07
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I just added an answer to Replace newlines with literal \n that works here too.
Using the "new" -z option you can do
sed -z 's/\t/\\t/g;s/\n/\\n/g' file
or
sed -z "s/\t/\\\t/g;s/\n/\\\n/g" file
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