My dude. Please learn a little bit about the history of music. It’s ok to be ignorant of it. You grew up in a country that has appropriated and stolen the art forms of black artist since before jazz music even existed.

But some of us use this massive source of information called “The Internet” to actually learn. Seriously, there is so much interesting shit out there. You don’t even need to be “woke”. You can literally just be interested in where music genres came from and their influence. If you do even a little bit of listening you’ll learn about how heavily every form of “pop” culture is heavily heavily influenced by black culture and in turn monetized by capitalist for profit.

Today the “face” of which is exploited black artist. But in the past was often a “white face” that was used to monetize black culture or artist that could never become “mainstream”.

This is exactly what a dude from the 80s knew. And he didn’t even have the Internet. He just knew the music industry and called it out for its failures. You have no excuse in 2025 to judge a white dude in the 80s pointing to well documented exploitations of black culture.

Black Americans did not only influence rap. They influenced every part of pop music for a century. They were only able to be successfully monetized around the time that rap music became popular. Seriously, you can open yourself up to a whole new world of music and history. You just have to be curious. You have the Internet. Good luck mate.

I just use the regex101 site. I don’t need anything too complicated ever. Has all the common syntax and shows matches as you type. Supports the different languages and globals.

I wish I could but since I use bash at work (often on embedded systems so no custom scripts or anything that isn’t source code) I just don’t want to go back and forth between the two.

The sad thing is that even chatgpt can’t program in bash. I just want a simple script and every single time it just doesn’t work. I always just end up saying “write this in python instead”.

It makes it usable without typing bash. Same would apply for a python script. For example you can make a python script named with no extension and add #!/usr/bin/python to the top of the file. Bash shell sees this and knows to execute the script using that python path.

Then you just include the directory in your $PATH and chmod +x the script. Then you can type $python_script instead of $python python_script.py