Backslashes Original URL: http://xkcd.com/1638/ Share this:TweetShare on TumblrPrintLike this:Like Loading...Original article Comments are closed.
![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 "[[(].*[])][^)]]*$" ... I have no memory of this and no idea what I was trying to do, but I sure hope it worked.](https://i0.wp.com/www.teknoids.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/backslashes.png?w=736 "I searched my .bash_history for the line with the highest ratio of special characters to regular alphanumeric characters, and the winner was: cat out.txt | grep -o \"[[(].*[])][^)]]*$\" ... I have no memory of this and no idea what I was trying to do, but I sure hope it worked.")
