Question

I am trying to substitute "<br>" to “\n” but do not find how use the <> with tr. Any idea to do this command work:

echo "HTML example<br>Print new line<br>please<br>not work" | tr "<br>" "\n" 

edit

The FatalError answer do not work for my OSX Lion. I don’t know why, but this simple sed command do not make new line, it return only

HTML examplenPrint new linenpleasennot work

I am using GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin11).
Any other idea?

Answer 1

tr is for mapping chars to other chars. For this task I’d suggest using sed:

echo "HTML example<br>Print new line<br>please<br>not work" | sed -e 's/<br>/\n/g'

This tells sed to substitute every instance of <br> with a newline char.

Edit

If you have problem, because the /\ in sed, this will solve the problem

echo "HTML example<br>Print new line<br>please<br>not work" | sed -e "s/<br>/\\`echo -e '\n\r'`/g"