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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...

Good for you and happy learning!

BTW, I tried that solution you just posted and had trouble when testing; but I was in a rush coding other projects so I guess I missed it somehow, maybe misplaced...

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...

Welcome.

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...

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,...

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,...

Yes, I see that now.... sorry busy working on apache2 error.... missed that (your output versus input)... my bad.

Will test something on my mac and post back.

Deleted post because my comment was accidentally on the output and not the input.

See my post below specific to macos and using perl instead of sed or using gsed on macos.

Earlier sed code...

Did you try something simple like?


sed 's/, name/\nname/g' yourfile.txt

ubuntu$ sed 's/, name/\nname/g' yourfile.txt
name:Pages, path:/Applications/Pages.app, class:login item,...