Talk:1638: Backslashes - Revision history

Apollo11 at 14:20, 22 August 2024

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172.69.194.206 at 11:05, 22 August 2024

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172.68.245.229 at 19:11, 21 August 2024

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Regex user at 10:30, 23 June 2024

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Wilh3lm: My most gibberish bash commands

2024-04-16T14:19:31Z

My most gibberish bash commands

Apollo11 at 15:45, 11 March 2024

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Apollo11 at 15:43, 11 March 2024

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Sqek at 13:18, 14 December 2017

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Dgbrt at 21:50, 5 August 2017

2017-08-05T21:50:38Z

Papayaman1000: I have a backslash in my brain now

2017-08-05T17:22:12Z

I have a backslash in my brain now

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 :::I noticed theres no character for Ba'al the soul eater on the character page. Is it just me or does someone else think that Ba'al should have a spot given that he(she??they??it??) has been in more comics than a lot of the minor characters? Just a thought. --[[User:Apollo11|Apollo11]] ([[User talk:Apollo11|talk]]) 10:42, 11 March 2024 (CST)
 ::::That would be pretty funny. What if Ba'al the Soul Eater likes scones? He and Beret Guy would be best friends. {{unsigned ip|172.68.245.229|19:11, 21 August 2024}}
 The last entry may also be an oblique reference to the infinitely-expandable recursive acronym "GOD = GOD Over Djinn" mentioned in Richard Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach.[[User:Taibhse|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse|talk]]) 16:42, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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 ::But Davidy did not so the category has been deleted again. I have just cleaned up after my mess ;-) so there are no left over links to the dead category... --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 22:27, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
 :::I noticed theres no character for Ba'al the soul eater on the character page. Is it just me or does someone else think that Ba'al should have a spot given that he(she??they??it??) has been in more comics than a lot of the minor characters? Just a thought. --[[User:Apollo11|Apollo11]] ([[User talk:Apollo11|talk]]) 10:42, 11 March 2024 (CST)
-::::That would be pretty funny. What if Ba'al the Soul Eater likes scones? He and Beret Guy would be best friends.
+::::That would be pretty funny. What if Ba'al the Soul Eater likes scones? He and Beret Guy would be best friends. {{unsigned ip|172.68.245.229|19:11, 21 August 2024}}
 The last entry may also be an oblique reference to the infinitely-expandable recursive acronym "GOD = GOD Over Djinn" mentioned in Richard Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach.[[User:Taibhse|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse|talk]]) 16:42, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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 ::But Davidy did not so the category has been deleted again. I have just cleaned up after my mess ;-) so there are no left over links to the dead category... --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 22:27, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
 :::I noticed theres no character for Ba'al the soul eater on the character page. Is it just me or does someone else think that Ba'al should have a spot given that he(she??they??it??) has been in more comics than a lot of the minor characters? Just a thought. --[[User:Apollo11|Apollo11]] ([[User talk:Apollo11|talk]]) 10:42, 11 March 2024 (CST)
 The last entry may also be an oblique reference to the infinitely-expandable recursive acronym "GOD = GOD Over Djinn" mentioned in Richard Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach.[[User:Taibhse|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse|talk]]) 16:42, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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 Outputs your bash_history, ordered by relative gibberishness. This was copied by hand from desktop to mobile, might well have a few typos.--[[Special:Contributions/162.158.90.208|162.158.90.208]] 10:04, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 ::Besides the fact that -d is a GNU extension to xargs (so it won't exist on OS X, FreeBSD, or anything else but Linux), this is a weird way to calculate gibberishness; I'm guessing functions, variable substitutions, .. and ./, etc. are going to swamp the more unreadable grep and the like. Plus, I think you need a uniq in there somewhere; otherwise, aren't the first few pages are all going to be filled with the 78 copies of "422 cd .." that tied for most gibberishy in my last 500 commands? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.82|162.158.255.82]] 22:51, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 The problem in the comic is not with regexes per se but with situations when the entered text or expression passes through several interpreters, like bash -> grep/sed/awk, or program text -> external shell command. In such cases, you have to escape backslashes for each program in the sequence, and it gets worse if you have 'real' backslashes in the final text that you're processing with the utilities (Windows' file paths, for example). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaning_toothpick_syndrome.

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	Regarding the change to the title text (with all backslashes being removed) it appears that this may not be a deliberate edit, as other comics (e.g. 1277) have also had all backslashes disappear from the title text. It appears that one of the tools Randall is using may be 'solving' accidentally escaped characters by doing a sed 's/\\//g' [[User:Sqek\|Sqek]] ([[User talk:Sqek\|talk]]) 13:18, 14 December 2017 (UTC)		Regarding the change to the title text (with all backslashes being removed) it appears that this may not be a deliberate edit, as other comics (e.g. 1277) have also had all backslashes disappear from the title text. It appears that one of the tools Randall is using may be 'solving' accidentally escaped characters by doing a sed 's/\\//g' [[User:Sqek\|Sqek]] ([[User talk:Sqek\|talk]]) 13:18, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
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		+	<code>sed -r "s/^(.*)$/^\1$/" wordlist.txt</code> What was I cooking... There are also cursed grep commands for wordle such as <code>grep -iwE '[qwiafghjkzxvbn]{5}' wordlist.txt \| grep -i '.[^ia][^n][^ai][^n]' \| grep -i [ain] </code> [[User:Wilh3lm\|Wilh3lm]] ([[User talk:Wilh3lm\|talk]]) 14:19, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

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	I had to use a backslash that escaped the screen today. I have a Discord bot written with Node.js, and my "friends" demanded I add a shruggie output [despite Discord having that already]. So, I now have a string that looks like <code>'¯\\\\\\_(ツ)\_/¯'</code>.{{unsigned\|Papayaman1000}}		I had to use a backslash that escaped the screen today. I have a Discord bot written with Node.js, and my "friends" demanded I add a shruggie output [despite Discord having that already]. So, I now have a string that looks like <code>'¯\\\\\\_(ツ)\_/¯'</code>.{{unsigned\|Papayaman1000}}
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		+	Regarding the change to the title text (with all backslashes being removed) it appears that this may not be a deliberate edit, as other comics (e.g. 1277) have also had all backslashes disappear from the title text. It appears that one of the tools Randall is using may be 'solving' accidentally escaped characters by doing a sed 's/\\//g' [[User:Sqek\|Sqek]] ([[User talk:Sqek\|talk]]) 13:18, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

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 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.90|108.162.221.90]] 16:08, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
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-I had to use a backslash that escaped the screen today. I have a Discord bot written with Node.js, and my "friends" demanded I add a shruggie output [despite Discord having that already]. So, I now have a string that looks like <pre>'¯\\\\\\_(ツ)\_/¯'</pre>.
+I had to use a backslash that escaped the screen today. I have a Discord bot written with Node.js, and my "friends" demanded I add a shruggie output [despite Discord having that already]. So, I now have a string that looks like <code>'¯\\\\\\_(ツ)\_/¯'</code>.{{unsigned|Papayaman1000}}

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	I believe the regex is a reference to xkcd 1313 (Regex Golf)		I believe the regex is a reference to xkcd 1313 (Regex Golf)
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		+	I had to use a backslash that escaped the screen today. I have a Discord bot written with Node.js, and my "friends" demanded I add a shruggie output [despite Discord having that already]. So, I now have a string that looks like <pre>'¯\\\\\\_(ツ)\_/¯'</pre>.