• mmddmm@lemm.ee
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      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?

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        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.

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      If they know Regex, assume you are in Sarumans tower and held captive until a hawk comes in.

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      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.