* Matt Wozniski on Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 21:29:44 -0500
> FWIW, you can use \n in sed.

That depends on the implementation.
> 
> echo a | sed 's/a/a\nb\n/'
> 
> is equivalent to
> 
> :s/a\n/a\rb\r/

/sw/bin/sed == GNU, /usr/bin/sed == Apple shipped BSD-like


~$ echo a | /sw/bin/sed -e 's/a/a\nb\n/'
a
b

~$ echo a | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/a/a\nb\n/'
anbn


Workaround (too lazy to look up the credits):

~$ echo a | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/a/a\'$'\n''b\'$'\n''/'
a
b


c
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\black\trash movie    _C O W B O Y_  _C A N O E_  _C O M A_
Ein deutscher Western/A German Western
-->> http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/ccc.html
-->> http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/ccc-en.html

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