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insert LF and TAB for formatting

trying to insert a LF and 2 TABs for this:

Code:

sed 's/<td><\/td>/<td>\n\t\t<\/td>/'    infile

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but, I'm not getting the syntax for inserting the LF and TABs correct

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Your syntax is correct for GNU sed but not for other versions of sed.

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