First, thanks again for sharing your knowledge with me I really appreciate the time/effort you took to write all of this. I know those are a lot of thank you but I'm really grateful for all of this, this is very valuable information I will keep in my knowledge base. It's really time I learn proper bash/python/Pearl? scripting with all those tools (grep/sed/regex).
Second, YOU MISSED A DAMNED parentheses you fool xD ! mdlinks="$(grep -Po ']\((?!https).*\)' ~/mkdn)" Took me some time to figured it out with a very non informative error bashscript.sh: line 8: unexpected EOF while looking for matching "' but as expected it works !
From
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[Just a test](#Just%20a%20test.md)
[Just a link](https://mylink/%20with%20space.com)
%20
To
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[Just a test](#Just-a-test.md)
[Just a link](https://mylink/%20with%20space.com)
%20
Next to show you my appreciation and not to take everything for granted and being spoon feed for everything, I tried to find a solution myself for something else, I will try to explain the best I can how I solved it.
From
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[Just a test](Another%20markdown%20file.md#Hello%20World)
To
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[Just a test](Another%20markdown%20file.md#hello-world)
The part before the hashtag needs to keep it's initial form (it links to the original markdown file). So, because just playing around with Pearl and regex (which doesn't end well doing this blindly without the proper knowledge) I did some simple string manipulation. It's not very elegant but does the trick, thankfully to your well written breakdown.
I printed out the $mdlinks variable just to see what it prints out
Copied and changed your Pearl/regex to find the first hashtag (#) and save it into a new variable ($mdlinks2)
Feed your $mdlinks variable into my new Pearl/regex
Feed my new variable into done? (I'm a bit confused here but okay xD)
#! /bin/bash
mdlinks="$(grep -Po ']\((?!https).*\)' "/home/dany/newtest.md")"
echo $mdlinks
mdlinks2="$(grep -Po '#.*' <<<$mdlinks)"
echo $mdlinks2
while IFS= read -r line; do
dashlink="$(echo "$line" | sed 's|%20|-|g')"
sed -i "s/$line/${dashlink}/" "/home/dany/newtest.md"
done <<<"$mdlinks2"
Yes, not very elegant but It's the best I could do currently However, I still got a YES effect
To answer your question:
Quick question as I’m working on this, in the new link example, is the BDMV and other capitalized text in this link supposed to be converted to lowercase, or to remain uppercase?
As you can see in my string manipulation above, the part before the # needs to keep it's original form (Sorry wasn't aware of this before working with the original files) I solved it with some string manipulation as shown above.
I'm a bit tired from all this searching/trail&error, tomorrow I will try to wrap everything up and answer your post below ! Also, I need to clean up the mess I made in my home directory xD.
Thanks again for your help ! Have a good night/day !
