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* Using 'sed' to substitute text

"~sed~" is a stream editor for filtering and transforming text"...

This command in emacs editor

: M-x woman [RET] sed

Visits the following file with info about ~sed~

usr/share/man/man1/sed.1.gz

A brief example:
I have a long comma separated text file with strings and
need to include a line break after each comma (\n)

: cat filetest

#+RESULTS:
|'string1',|'string2', |'string3'|

Using ~sed~ and redirecting the output to "filetest1"

: $ sed 's/\,/&\n/g' filetest > filetest1

#+RESULTS:
| 'string1', |
| 'string2', |
| 'string3'  |