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img title="I don't know what's worse--the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can't keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I'm still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started."

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[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Yeah tar is easy. Regex on the other hand..

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I can remember regex, but I need to check tar almost every time.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

Nothing a .* can't solve

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

Regex, the write only language.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago

Oh jeez, I use regex at least 2-3 times a week. It's really not too bad for simple stuff and doing basic search and replace operations in text editors

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