[Novalug] sed syntax question

[Megan Larko]

Hello,

I have spent nearly two hours trying to solve what I think should be a simple problem.
I have a file (an auto-generated html file in my specific case) which is only one line.
One very, very looonng line.

I would like to automatically parse it to extract a word.  Because the file is a single line, I am 
trying to use the sed command to insert (or substitute,  I'm not picky here) a newline or carriage 
return character in an effort to break the single line up into smaller lines for subsequent (g)awk -ing.

I have tried many versions of:
  cat ftp.html | sed i/bytes/bytes\n > meg
  cat ftp2u.html | sed i/bytes/\n/ > meg

The results are indeed in the "meg" output file---one line with "/bytes/bytesn" or "/bytes" and a 
second line which is the entire ftp.html one long-line file.

I have tried:
  cat ftp.html | sed s/bytes/bytes\n/ > meg

The result is only the one long-line file; no newlines inserted following the character string "bytes".


I've been looking in O'Reillys "sed & awk"  2nd Edition but I'm not finding what I need.  The index 
for "insert" (Chapter on insert pp 87-90), "newline" and "return" have shown the special chars but 
not enough of an example for me to get the syntax I would like to be correct.

Any directions on where I should look for this?

Thanks,
megan