[–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This might work, but I think it is best to not tinker further if you already have a working script (especially one that you understand and can modify further if needed).

perl -pe 's/\[[^]]+\]\((?!https?)[^#]*#\K[^)]+(?=\))/lc $&=~s:%20|\d\K\.(?=\d):-:gr/ge'
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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    Here's a solution with perl (assuming you don't want to change http/https after the start of ( instead of start of a line):

    perl -pe 's/\[[^]]+\]\(\K(?!https?)[^)]+(?=\))/lc $&=~s|%20|-|gr/ge' ip.txt
    
    • e flag allows you to use Perl code in the substitution portion.
    • \[[^]]+\]\(\K match square brackets and use \K to mark the start of matching portion (text before that won't be part of $&)
    • (?!https?) don't match if http or https is found
    • [^)]+(?=\)) match non ) characters and assert that ) is present after those characters
    • $&=~s|%20|-|gr change %20 to - for the matching portion found, the r flag is used to return the modified string instead of change $& itself
    • lc is a function to change text to lowercase
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