• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    4 个月前

    Regex

    Edit: to everyone who responded, I use regex infrequently enough that the knowledge never really crystalizes. By the time I need it for this one thing again, I haven’t touched it in like a year.

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
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      4 个月前

      You get used to it, I don’t even see the code—I just see: group… pattern… read-ahead…

    • Kissaki@programming.devEnglish
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      4 个月前

      You always forget regex syntax?

      I’ve always found it simple to understand and remember. Even over many years and decades, I’ve never had issues reading or writing simple regex syntax (excluding the flags and shorthands) even after long regex breaks.

      • Akito@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        4 个月前

        It’s not about the syntax itself, it’s about which syntax to use. There are different ones and remembering which one is for which language is tough.

    • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      4 个月前

      Or scripts for basically any other variant of the Bourne shell. They are, for the most part, very cross compatible.

      • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
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        4 个月前

        That’s the only reason I’ve ever done much of anything in shell script. As a network administrator I’ve worked many network appliances running on some flavor of Unix and the one language I can count on to be always available is bash. It has been well worth knowing for just that reason.

  • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    4 个月前

    I don’t normally say this, but the AI tools I’ve used to help me write bash were pretty much spot on.

    • marduk@lemmy.sdf.org
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      4 个月前

      Yes, with respect to the grey bearded uncles and aunties; as someone who never “learned” bash, in 2025 I’m letting a LLM do the bashing for me.

      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 个月前

        Until the magic incantations you don’t bother to understand don’t actually do what you think they’re doing.

        • MBM@lemmings.world
          0·
          4 个月前

          I wonder if there’s a chance of getting rm -rf /* or zip bombs. Those are definitely in the training data at least.

          • furikuri@programming.dev
            1·
            4 个月前

            The classic rm -rf $ENV/home where $ENV can be empty or contain spaces is definitely going to hit someone one day