Suggestion: Method for automatically changing headers in selected text

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I searched here for any plugins that could do this automatically, but I didn't find anything. For now, I'm using a Bash script to do this.

Suppose I have the following note in .md format:

# A                <!-- Line 1 -->
# B                <!-- Line 2 -->
## C               <!-- Line 3 -->
### D              <!-- Line 4 -->
#### E             <!-- Line 5 -->
# F                <!-- Line 6 -->

I want to be able to select lines 2 to 5 and be able to increase their header levels in bulk, so that all of them become nested in header #A:

# A
## B
### C
#### D
##### E
# F

I would also like to have an option to reduce the header levels of the selected lines, which would result in:

# A
# B
# C
## D
### E
# F

This would be very useful when merging notes, as the old header levels recurrently impact readability on the TOC in the Outline plugin.

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You can also open the note in an external editor, and from there there may be plugins to do that kind operations (for example with VSCode). Personally I just use a regex from VSCode when I need to do this kind of change, but it's true that a plugin would be convenient

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I honestly hadn't thought about external editors and Find and Replace Regex plugins. Thank you.

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