From 970f0a8cecd982cb646a9897642e274cd87ab498 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:51:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] cleancmd.pl: remove markdown links before spellcheck

Closes #21085
---
 .github/scripts/cleancmd.pl | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/scripts/cleancmd.pl b/.github/scripts/cleancmd.pl
index 06b38f1022..988d456204 100755
--- a/.github/scripts/cleancmd.pl
+++ b/.github/scripts/cleancmd.pl
@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ sub process {
         # strip out https URLs, we do not want them spellchecked
         $l =~ s!https://[a-z0-9\#_/.-]+!!gi;
 
+        # strip links, both name and target
+        $l =~ s/(\[.*?\])\(.*?\)//g;
         $out .= $l;
     }
     close(F);