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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing space with hyphen in a pattern. Post 302980354 by shoaibjameel123 on Friday 26th of August 2016 09:41:00 AM
Old 08-26-2016
Thanks, and sorry for not being very clear in my initial post. The output that I am trying to get is:
Code:
'''Anarchism''' is a [[political-philosophy]] that advocates [[self-governance|self-governed]] societies with voluntary institutions.

Another example,
Code:
The first political philosopher to call himself an anarchist was [[Pierre-Joseph-Proudhon]], marking the formal birth of anarchism in the mid-nineteenth century.

Some noisy text:
Code:
[[Online-etymology-dictionary]].</ref> The first known use of this word was in 1539.<ref>"Origin of ANARCHY

Therefore, I only aim to replace space with a '-' within this pattern "[[ ]]" and no where else in the text file. The outputs that I get from the above two suggested solutions are putting hyphens everywhere.
 

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DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the GSMarkupBrowser.app utility.

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