Insert multiple lines of text before specific line using Bash

Question

I am trying to insert a few lines of text before a specific line, but keep getting sed errors when I try to add a new line character. My command looks like:

Answer 1

This ll works from the first line.. For eg: If you want to insert from 3rd line of a file, replace "1i" to "3i".

sed -i '1i line1'\\n'line2'\\n'line3' 1.txt 

cat 1.txt

 line1
 line2
 line3
 Hai

Answer 2

This can be easily done with Perl also

$ cat MeanwhileInHell.txt
Iran|XXXXXX|Iranian
Iraq|YYYYYY|Iraquian
Saudi|ZZZZZ|Saudi is a Rich Country
USA|AAAAAA|USA is United States of America.
India|IIII|India got freedom from British.
Scot|SSSSS|Canada Mexio.
$ perl -pe 'BEGIN {$x="Line one to insert\nLine 2\nLine3\n"} $_=$x.$_ if /USA/ ' MeanwhileInHell.txt
Iran|XXXXXX|Iranian
Iraq|YYYYYY|Iraquian
Saudi|ZZZZZ|Saudi is a Rich Country
Line one to insert
Line 2
Line3
USA|AAAAAA|USA is United States of America.
India|IIII|India got freedom from British.
Scot|SSSSS|Canada Mexio.
$

Answer 3

This should work:

sed -i '/Line to insert after/ i Line one to insert \
second new line to insert \
third new line to insert' file