Does lookbehind work in sed?

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GNU sed does not have support for lookaround assertions. You could use a more powerful language such as Perl or possibly experiment with ssed which supports Perl-style regular expressions.

perl -pe 's/(?<=foo)bar/test/g' file.txt

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