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From: sarwate@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Putting in newlines using sed
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Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 14:56:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 18 14:56:00 1985
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Using the sed command

s/ foo/\
foo/g

seems to work on the 4.2BSD version of sed.  Note that the newline character
as given by the RETURN key follows the \ on the first line.