Difference between \n and \r?

Question

What’s the difference between \\n (newline) and \\r (carriage return)?

In particular, are there any practical differences between

Answer 1

Two different characters.

\n is used as an end-of-line terminator in Unix text files

\r Was historically (pre-OS X) used as an end-of-line terminator in Mac text files

\r\n (ie both) are used to terminate lines in Windows and DOS text files.