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Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:46:23 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject:	Can't use special characters \n or \r
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I have a text file made in Windows, and I'm trying to replace all the
carriage returns with nothing. However, whenever I use \r or \n to indicate
a carriage return or newline in a grep or sed search string, it is treated
as a normal r and normal n. Anyone have any idea of what may be causing
this?
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