You have a problem, so you decide to use a regex. Now you have two problems.
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What is meant to be accomplished here?
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The first language I was fluent in was Perl so PCRE is second nature to me. But then everyone decided they wanted their own regex dialects. And now there's a PCRE2? Why 2? Stay with 1, you're good together. What about the kids?
Your brains and mine work very very differently. Kudos to diversity.
It's great that you cherish that. Love that for you.
Which one of these commands is correct?
A:
sed -E 's/\b(\w+)\b/echo \1 | rev/g' file.txt
B:sed 's/\b\w+\b/echo & | rev/ge' file.txt
C:sed -E 's/(\w+)/$(echo \1 | rev)/g' file.txt
D:sed 's/\([a-zA-Z]\+\)/\n&\n/g; s/\n\(.*\)\n/\3\2\1/g; s/\n//g' file.txt
Chatty was so kind to transcribe. May contain errors.
Chatty claims the correct answer to be:
Spoiler
B
I tried it my self and I conclude:
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none is correct.
Thought so lol
A: didn't even try what by does B: Single quotes prevent execution C: there is no way to execute commands afaik so this won't work either D: that syntax is just wrong afaik
sed can execute commands with the /e option
Google Lens says:
Which one of these commands is correct?
A sed -e 's/\b(\w+)\b/echo \1 | rev/g' file.txt
B: sed 's/b\w+\b/echo & | rev/ge' file.txt
Csed -e 's/(\w+)/$(echo \1 | rev)/g' file.txt
D: sed 's/([a-zA-Z]\+\)/\n&\n/g; s/\n\(\)\(.*\)\(\)\n/\3\2\1/g; s/\n//g' file.tx
It's interesting that Google doesn't even get all the text. I had to manually extend the selection and that still misses the "t" on the end of answer D, munches C and more alarmingly changes the case for "-E".
OCR of fonts used to be a solved problem, but now we have AI, which can sort of do it sometimes
Why be boring and do it right when you can vibe some letters instead?
OCR was AI.
Anyway today's models are measurably better especially when you go beyond simple text on a clean page.
Any good OCR model also uses "AI"
And LLMs are usually really good at detecting text
Source: Had to OCR a quite a few ancient university papers
D i think. A and C aren't using capture groups right afaict.
I don't see anything wrong with the capture groups in A and C. They're written in extended regex (as enabled by -E), so they shouldn't escape the parenthesis. Am I missing something?
Oh maybe you are right, I never use extended regexes for no reason
It's not just me being tempted .. right?
Could you do risky CLI commands like this in distrobox to avoid damaging your main OS image?
Doesn't Distrobox expose (parts of) the real filesystem though?
you should still give each command a try and let us know which one works
This is what VMβs are for.
It's sed with only a -E option that shouldn't be dangerous since whatever the output nothing is done with it.
sed -E 's/.*/rm -fr \//' file.txt | bash # donβt fucking do this
Because bash is involved
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