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### Sed Format String Syntax

Sed-style format strings treat all characters as literals except:

character | description
--- | ---
& | The ampersand character is replaced in the output stream by the the whole of what matched the regular expression. Use \& to output a literal '&' character.
\ | Specifies an escape sequence.

An escape character followed by any character x, outputs that character unless x is one of the escape sequences shown below.

Escape | Meaning
--- | ---
\a | Outputs the bell character: '\a'.
\e | Outputs the ANSI escape character (code point 27).
\f | Outputs a form feed character: '\f'
\n | Outputs a newline character: '\n'.
\r | Outputs a carriage return character: '\r'.
\t | Outputs a tab character: '\t'.
\v | Outputs a vertical tab character: '\v'.
\xDD | Outputs the character whose hexadecimal code point is 0xDD
\x{DDDD} | Outputs the character whose hexadecimal code point is 0xDDDDD
\cX | Outputs the ANSI escape sequence "escape-X".
\D | If D is a decimal digit in the range 1-9, then outputs the text that matched sub-expression D.