How to replace newlines with tab characters?

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I have pattern like below

hi
hello
hallo
greetings
salutations
no more hello for you

I am trying to replace all newlines with tab using the following command

sed -e "s_/\n_/\t_g"

but it's not working.

Could anybody please help? I'm looking for a solution in sed/awk.

sed awk shell unix
6 Answers

You are almost there with your sed script, you'd just need to change it to:

sed -e "s/\n/\t/g"

The \ is enough for escape, you don't need to add _ And you need to add the / before g at the end to let sed know that this is the last part of the script.

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