Are you a tits or FFMPEG filter documentation on section 11.5 man?
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ffmpeg command lines are straight up black magic.
Anyone who understands them is not to be trusted.
It's even worse than tar.
ffmpeg commands are one of the best use cases for ChatGPT
If they know Regex, assume you are in Sarumans tower and held captive until a hawk comes in.
Writing regex is easy.
Reading it again after a couple of weeks...
Tbh the frequent pain from needing to read it again often happens because it was so hard to write correctly that it misbehaves on some data and you need to adjust it.
It's a write only language
The biggest pain in the ass I've dealt with was using a directshow lib to implement flash on a new camera we were supporting for a desktop application. Working with a device graph and pins is beyond frustrating. We're porting functionality to the Web and my dev working on the camera just needed to call capture image to trigger the flash.
GNU tar is easy and straight-forward.
It's also completely incompatible with any other Unix, but then, what difference does it make is nobody can use them?
A more complex but more commonly used program is rsync
rsync -rav /home/user/Documents /mnt/usbdrive is treated differently than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents/ /mnt/usbdrive which is different than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents /mnt/usbdrive/ which is different than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents/ /mnt/usbdrive/
It's a great tool for making copies onto drives, even servers. But man you have to double check how each folder path is laid out, otherwise it'll write the files of one folder to the main drive, unorganized.
I recommend --dry-run and reading the stdout with human readable output -h. And dont use the --delete flag if you dont know what will happen 😓
Pages are fractional now?
Man, I really gotta get with the times...
I've had text books that have page numbers in the corner as chapter-number. It's not unheard of. When I was in JROTC in highschool the cadet field manual had pages like this. I'm sure others did too but I specifically remember that one more because I was there for four years. (Had to be there for riflery team.)
The bible is an old western book that orders itself so
"Section". They just used the wrong word ¯\(ツ)/¯
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