title: sed help: matching and replacing a literal "\n" (not the newline)
body: <p>i have a file which contains several instances of <strong>\n</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>i would like to replace them with actual newlines, but sed doesn't recognize the <strong>\n</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>i tried</p>
  
  <pre><code>sed -r -e 's/\n/\n/'
  sed -r -e 's/\\n/\n/'
  sed -r -e 's/[\n]/\n/'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and many other ways of escaping it.</p>
  
  <p>is sed able to recognize a literal <strong>\n</strong>? if so, how?</p>
  
  <p>is there another program that can read the file interpreting the <strong>\n</strong>'s as real newlines?</p>