Regexes in bash commands are my nemesis.

This meme brought to you by me trying to pass a regex from Nix into a TOML, which is certainly not the worst backslash orgy I've seen, but tragic in its own right. Both Nix and TOML have a way to specify raw strings, which do not need escaping. But Nix uses a normal string when passing into TOML, so I do have to escape anyways. 🫠

My regex also contains a double-quote, which was just guesswork as to how many backslashes I need there.

Learning C: Random asterisks go

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa No!!!!! My data! Please stop doing that!

[[[[[["TCL/TK has \\\\\\\\\\"entered\\\\\\\\\\" the chat."]]]]]] 

Oh you mean a pipiline defined in yaml, running in poweshell to execute a command in docker on windows?

I had to do this yesterday. First I tried ". Then \", finally \" worked. Which doesn't make sense. But I'm not looking for answers, I've got more Jira tickets this sprint.

Run a PowerShell script from batch, but call it using start-process as administrator, using a variable for the path and also pass parameters to the script.

I added an expression support to my Automod for Lemmy which can have subexpressions as parameters etc., pretty cool to work with.

Except every subexpression needs 2^n-1 slashes where n is the depth level. Fun times writing the expressions.