How to replace one character with two characters using tr

Question

Can tr replace one character with two characters?

I am trying to replace \"~\" with \"~\\n\" but the output does not produce the newline.

$ echo \"a         


        

Answer 1

echo "asdlksad ~ adlkajsd ~ 12345" | sed 's/~/~|/g' | tr '|' '\n'

--This will work perfect, since sed having a problem replacing \n