HomeWeb ComicsBackslashes Backslashes February 10, 2016 Web Comics No Comments via : xkcd.com Tweet Pin It Related Posts XKCD Stack A simple solution to a complicated problem Super Bowl Context
![I searched my .bash_history for the line with the highest ratio of special characters to regular alphanumeric characters, and the winner was: cat out.txt | grep -o "[[(].*[])][^)]]*$" ... I have no memory of this and no idea what I was trying to do, but I sure hope it worked.](https://totseans.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/backslashes.png "I searched my .bash_history for the line with the highest ratio of special characters to regular alphanumeric characters, and the winner was: cat out.txt | grep -o \"[[(].*[])][^)]]*$\" ... I have no memory of this and no idea what I was trying to do, but I sure hope it worked.")
