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Not sure what is printing hyphens. See below.

$ cat sample10.txt
abc def "."; ghi
abc kgk mhi def "="; klm nop
abc kgg def "j"; klm mno pwd rst

$ cat sample11.txt
abc def "."; ghi
abc kgk...

Do you mean quotes "
Also, sometimes referred to as double-quotes so as not to be confused with the single-quote symbol '

$ sed 's/def /def~/g' <sample10.txt | tr " " "\n" | grep "^def" | cut -c6
.
=
j