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Rob Pike wrote a paper, Structural Regular Expressions (https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf), that criticized the Unix toolset for being excessively line oriented. Tools like awk and grep assume a regular record structure usually denoted by newlines. Unix pipes just stream the file from one command to another, and imposing the newline structure limits the power of the Unix shell. In the paper, Mr. Pike proposed an awk of the future that used structural regular expressions to parse input instead of line by line processing. As far as I know, it…
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My book on "GNU grep and ripgrep" is free to download today and tomorrow [1][2] Code snippets, example files and sample chapters are available on GitHub [3] The book uses plenty of examples and regular expressions are also covered from scratch. The book is suitable for beginners as well as serves as a reference. Hope you find it useful, I would be grateful for your feedback and suggestions. I used pandoc+xelatex [4] to generate the pdf. [1] https://gumroad.com/l/gnugrep_ripgrep [2] https://leanpub.com/gnugrep_ripgrep [3]…
2019
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2021 · compiler.org
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2020 · github.com
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2021 · n8ta.com
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My book titled "Python re(gex)?" is free to download through this weekend [1][2] The book covers both 're' and 'regex' modules, has plenty of examples and chapters also have cheatsheets and exercises. Code snippets, exercises, sample chapters, etc are available on GitHub repo [3] I used pandoc+xelatex [4] to generate the pdf. [1] https://gumroad.com/l/py_regex [2] https://leanpub.com/py_regex [3] https://github.com/learnbyexample/py_regular_expressions [4]…
2019
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2020 · github.com
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2021 · learnbyexample.github.io
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2019 · github.com
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2020 · github.com
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2015 · github.com
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2020 · github.com
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2019 · github.com
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2015 · github.com
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2013 · github.com
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Hello. I updated my ebook on JavaScript regular expressions [1] today - updates include corrections, additional content, exercises, solutions, etc All my ebooks [2] are currently free to help with quarantine reading. These include GNU grep & ripgrep, GNU sed, GNU awk and three books on regular expressions - Python, Ruby, JavaScript I'd appreciate your feedback and hope the books are useful. Happy learning :) [1] https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_js_regexp [2] https://learnbyexample.github.io/books/
2020
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2017 · wstoop.co.za
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Hey folks, I just wanted to share a quick script I threw together called notational ls. One of the big problems of any code base (or any filesystem) is that it's hard to tell what's what - folder and file names often trade brevity for clarity. So I thought about a version of `ls` that works like this: > nls web: Where python web server files are stored ad_hoc: One time scripts ios: Our IOS code images Adding descriptions is really easy too: > nls images Images SHARED between both ios and web web: Where python web server files are stored ad_hoc: One time scripts ios: Our IOS code…
2011
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2022 · kylheku.com
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2016 · github.com
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Hi HN, I built XRAY MCP after discovering that AI assistants were scanning my projects with plain grep and guessing. I tried direct tree-sitter integration and language servers; both felt heavy for a lightweight tool. ast-grep hit a sweet spot: syntax-aware search in a single binary. XRAY MCP wraps it behind three endpoints—map, find, impact—so a model (or human) can answer questions like “what breaks if I change this function?” on demand. It’s stateless, supports Python/JS/TS/Go, and installs quickly. Repo: https://github.com/srijanshukla18/xray Would love…
2025 · github.com
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2019 · github.com
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Most of the document parsers fail on real world challenges like complex tables, handwritten documents, historical document scans, equations, multi-column layouts, complex reading order, etc. We built Unsiloed Parser to handle exactly these cases. Our latest parser v3.1 achieved #1 rank and scored 88.0 strict pass-rate on olmOCR-Bench. We ran the evaluation across 1,403 PDFs and 8,413 unit tests using the unmodified upstream Allen AI scorer (olmocr==0.4.27) and found Unsiloed beats 18 other OCR services, including GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, LlamaParse, Reducto, Azure Document Intelligence, AWS…
May 2026
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2021 · sandbox.bio
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I'm munging text and I wrote these awk commands that may be useful to other coders. Feedback welcome. union (https://github.com/sixarm/union): print lines in (A union B) intersect (https://github.com/sixarm/intersect): print lines in (A intersect B) except (https://github.com/sixarm/except): print lines in (A except B) a.k.a. (A - B) extra (https://github.com/sixarm/extra) : print lines in (A extra B) a.k.a. (B - A) Examples: $ cat 1.txt alpha bravo $ cat 2.txt alpha charlie $ union 1.txt 2.txt alpha bravo…
2017
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