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This does not work as you need. You forgot to add the colon (:) back in the REGEX:

sed 's/, name:/\'$'\nname:/g'

So,

macos$ sed 's/, name:/\'$'\nname:/g' test.txt > a.txt

macos$ cat...

That works from the shell command line for sure.

But, I don't think the original poster wants to necessarily force a line break like that into his sequence of commands, when their are clearly...

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I think you will have some trouble with sed on the mac. I checked the web, and this newline issue on the macos version of sed is very frustrating for many people . The best idea for...

I think on macos, perl is a better choice (for this REGEX):

macos$ perl -p -e 's/name:/\nname:/g' test.txt > a.txt

macos$ cat test.txt a.txt
name:Pages, path:/Applications/Pages.app,...

Also, FYI.. on macOS, you can also install GNU sed and it works as expected:

brew install gnu-sed

macos$ gsed 's/name:/\nname:/g' test.txt > a.txt
macos$ cat test.txt a.txt
name:Pages,...