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I know your question was initially about sed, but there is a beautifully simple answer in vim:

:g/.\npattern/norm o

Or, if you would rather run this entirely from the command line:

vim file -c "g/.\npattern/norm o" -c "wq"

The way it works, is that it looks for any line that matches the following regex:

.\npattern

which is any non-empty line followed by your pattern. Then, for each match, it applies the following command norm o, which opens up a newline below the current cursor location.

This should work for vi also.

I know your question was initially about sed, but there is a beautifully simple answer in vim:

:g/.\npattern/norm o

Or, if you would rather run this entirely from the command line:

vim file -c "g/.\npattern/norm o" -c "wq"

The way it works, is that it looks for any line that matches the following regex:

.\npattern

which is any non-empty line followed by your pattern. Then, for each match, it applies the following command norm o, which opens up a newline below the current cursor location.

This should work for vi also.

I know your question was initially about sed, but there is a beautifully simple answer in vim:

:g/.\npattern/norm o

Or, if you would rather run this entirely from the command line:

vim file -c "g/.\npattern/norm o" -c "wq"

The way it works, is that it looks for any line that matches the following regex:

.\npattern

which is any non-empty line followed by your pattern. Then, for each match, it applies the following command norm o, which opens up a newline below the current cursor location.

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DJMcMayhem
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I know your question was initially about sed, but there is a beautifully simple answer in vim:

:g/.\npattern/norm o

Or, if you would rather run this entirely from the command line:

vim file -c "g/.\npattern/norm o" -c "wq"

The way it works, is that it looks for any line that matches the following regex:

.\npattern

which is any non-empty line followed by your pattern. Then, for each match, it applies the following command norm o, which opens up a newline below the current cursor location.

This should work for vi also.