Putting in newlines using sed

[Chris Torek]

Feeding `sed' newlines is easy; the real trick is getting the C shell
to hand it the right stuff.

The sed documentation says that in order to insert newlines in
substitute commands, you should quote them with backslash:

	sed -e 's/foo/b\
	a\
	r/'

Indeed, this works quite well in the Bourne shell, which does what
I consider the `proper' thing with this input.  The C shell, however,
thinks it is smarter than you are, and *removes* the trailing
backslashes!  So instead you must type

	sed -e 's/foo/b\\
	a\\
	r/'

Probably the best solution is to place your sed commands in a
separate file; then which shell is used no longer matters.
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