Replacing Formfeed (\f) with Carriage Return (\r) & New Line (\n)

[pfildes]

I have a text file with the '\f' character that I need to replace with the characters '\r\n'. I have tried the 'TR' command but that failed.

Can anybody please advise how I do this?

 

[KenCunningham]

Can you tell us what you did with tr that failed? You can replace characters using vi too if you wish.

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[pfildes]

I tried the following command;

cat myfile.txt | tr '\014' '\015\012' > myfile.out

but this didnt seem to do anything. I was thinking that I need to replace a single character with another single character, not multiple characters