• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    2·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

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

      • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        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
    01·
    3 months ago

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