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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Yeah tar is easy. Regex on the other hand..
Regex, the write only language.
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
Nothing a
.*can't solveI can remember regex, but I need to check tar almost every time.