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Replace text using a regex pattern.

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Section: Regex and Text Processing

Replace first regex match

bash
bash
echo '"hello world"' | jq 'sub("world"; "jq")'
Explanation

Use `sub()` for one replacement and `gsub()` for all matches.

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