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Referring to vbe's post#2 and suggested command line he gives (which is the way to do it), I would comment as follows.

1. The destination path MUST already exist before the command is run. If...

I had a hard day so not sure what you mean... as using cp -r to copy directories , I dont because of issues with links files perms etc... and prefer using cpio or tar on the fly, now as I ma leving...

Yes, you are confusing yourself and us.

In sed you do not append text to the end of a line. The sed a command appends lines of text following the current line. And, the sed i command inserts...

Unfortunately it's not much clearer now, at least to me. Let me try to help by just guessing what you need, ignoring the samples you gave above.
Please be aware that sed matches case sensitive...

Assuming that you used the s (substitute) command in sed to change the empty string at the end of a line to a specific string, why not also use the s command to change occurrences of programmer to ...

Ah, then it's
sed '/"$/!{N;s/\n//;}' fileIf not ending with a " append the next line, delete the embedded \n

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@lmre: the n command seems more appropriate here.
To delete an empty line following a line ending with a "
sed '/"$/{n;/^$/d;}' file