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how to get rid of /n from file accept the one at the end of the line

Ryan Gaffuri

2004-08-19, 5:58 pm

I have a file of the form

hello|goodbye|hello /n goodbye| /n

I need to remove all /n accept for the one at the end of the line.
Problem is /n determines what the end of the line.