Hi John,
> In lieu of escaped newlines and awkward sed(1) formatting, you can use
> the following line to insert an empty line:
>
> /^Before$/ { N; s/\n/&&/; }
With the caveat that the line read by N won't be processed as it would
have been otherwise. These two show the difference which might not
matter in some cases.
seq 10 29 | sed $'/5$/i\\\n\n/^2/s//x/'
seq 10 29 | sed $'/5$/{N;s/\\n/&&/}\n/^2/s//x/'
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Cheers, Ralph.
