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CamJN 30 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Using jq to format JSON on the clipboard

/\ \ */ is the same as / +/, but if you only want to replace 2+ spaces and leave the single spaces alone, then what you really want is /\ \ +/.

Edit: had to escape the spaces because HN ate my spaces.

_flux 30 days ago [–]

You need to use -E to get that behavior with GNU Sed.

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