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CategoryComputingTips > SedCompTips

== 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/'