replace with new line '\r\n'

[simonlongson]

Is there a way to replace with special chars rather than string? I did a replace on a list of emails looking something like replace ';' '\r\n' email.txt This did do the replace but replaced it with a visible \r\n rather than a new line. So to reverse it I thought I'd do the reverse replace '\r\n' ';' email.txt but this actually converted all my line breaks into ; instead. I see now that there's a dry run option which I will run next time but is there a way to replace with a line break? Cheers