this should come in handy for anyone needing to remove newline and escape characters in a file they might hypothetically find somewhere:
cat dirty_file | sed 's/\\n/\n/g' | sed 's/\\//g' > clean_filethis should come in handy for anyone needing to remove newline and escape characters in a file they might hypothetically find somewhere:
cat dirty_file | sed 's/\\n/\n/g' | sed 's/\\//g' > clean_file