Can I use sed to insert the newline (\n) character .....

[dsearfass]

I have a file ...
Each line looks something like the following:
13212121 NEWLINE 121211 11112121 12121

What I want to do is replace the text 'NEWLINE' with the
actual newline \n character.

So my output will now look like:
13212121
121211 11112121 12121

I thought sed would be the best tool to use for this but
there could be a better alternative.

I don't want to do this through interactive VI. I want to
be able to place this in a KSH script.

Thanks ahead of time for any help,
It's much appreciated.

-dave

 

[misercord]

To do this in sed I would write a tiny sed script like this

>cat tiny.sd
s-NEWLINE--

There is literally a new line character at the end of the first line. Then to invoke it in the KSH script do the following

sed -f tiny.sd file > newfile