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  1. #!/bin/bash
  2. s='[the name of the link](www.example.com/a badly named thing)'
  3. sed -e ':a' -e 's/\(\[[^][]*]([^()[:space:]]*\)[[:space:]]\{1,\}\([^()]*)\)/\1-\2/' -e 'ta' <<< "$s"
Success #stdin #stdout 0.01s 5432KB
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stdin 
Standard input is empty
stdout 
[the name of the link](www.example.com/a-badly-named-thing)
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Bash (bash 5.0.3)
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3 years ago
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