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Sed Tips

Insert a newline with sed

You have to escape the newline itself. Putting \n in the replacement side just won't work but you probably found that out already :) 

sed -e 's/foo/f\
o/'
foo
f
o

Perl can do the same thing with perl -pe 's/foo/f\no/'

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