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Re:Batch editing files with ed by yani on Saturday May 12, 2018 @03:39PM (#17055645)
You are missing the dash that the line starts with
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Re:Batch editing files with ed by KC8ZKF on Saturday May 12, 2018 @04:07PM (#17055761) 

  sed -i.bak s/baz/"baz\\n  - elephants"/ *.txt
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Re:Batch editing files with ed by bewuethr on Saturday May 12, 2018 @06:19PM (#17056304)
The article says that the indentation can be two or four spaces, though.
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