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sed: replace any number of occurrences of a certain pattern

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Problem

Given this input: I want to replace every '--' in between single quotes with 'X-X-X' using . It should give the following output: output: "hell --'this X-X-X world X-X-Xis'-- beautiful' X-X-Xthanks X-X-X we' -- are here" The number of replacements may be unknown (up to infinity).

Error Output

"hell -- 'this -- world --is'-- beautiful' --thanks-- we'-- are-- here"

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Fix for: sed: replace any number of occurrences of a certain pattern

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You want to use the /g switch at the end to parse more than one substitution per line.

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