How to read a file using sed starting from a specific line number and replace values and output to new file

Question

I have a file where I want to read starting at line number 426 and ending at 2372. Within those lines I want to replace , , with a new line character and output this to a new file.

I have tried the following:

sed -n '426,2372p' input.txt > $tmpSrcFile

which works grabbing that section and outputting it but when I add the replace I can't get it to work:

sed -n '426,2372ps/:, ,:/\n/g' input.txt > $tmpSrcFile 

Answer 1

For the given input file:

1,
2,
3,
4,
5,

This sed invocation seems to replace and print only within a line range:

$ sed -n '3,4{s/,/^/gp}' input; printf "END\n"
3^
4^
END

Even when the replacement is a newline:

$ sed -n '3,4{s/,/\n/gp}' input; printf "END\n"
3

4

END