To insert a newline into the right-hand side (RHS) of a substitution in sed
, you can use the \n
escape sequence. For example, the following command will insert a newline after the first occurrence of the string string1
:
sed 's/string1/string1\n/' file
This will search the file
for the first occurrence of string1
, and replace it with string1
followed by a newline.
You can also insert a newline at the beginning of a substitution by using the ^
character:
sed 's/string1/\nstring1/' file
This will search the file
for the first occurrence of string1
, and replace it with a newline followed by string1
.
If you want to insert a newline after every occurrence of a string, you can use the g
flag at the end of the substitution command:
sed 's/string1/string1\n/g' file
This will search the file
for all occurrences of string1
, and replace them with string1
followed by a newline.
By using the \n
escape sequence and the g
flag in a sed
substitution, you can insert newlines into the right-hand side of a substitution. This can be useful for formatting text data or for adding line breaks in a script.