Display \n characters as newlines when using tail?

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Published on 2010-03-25T21:32:46Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 21:43 UTC
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I have a file that I am trying to read by using tail -f. I was wondering if there was a way to have the terminal output an actual line break instead of the \n character.

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