Grep is g/re/p. Global, Regular Expression, Print.

Ahh yes, something even more archaic is what’s required! How about a clay tablet icon?

That’s what Big Floppy want you to believe.

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That’s basically it, just for paranoid information security. I figure if it’s so easy to bring a deleted file back, it should also be easy to ensure deleted data is actually destroyed.

Just wondering, is there an inverse of this? Find files on disk flagged as OK to overwrite and have all bits set to 0?

Honestly no I don’t recall any of that, but to be fair I read the book around 30 years ago. Yes I’m old. Your points have intrigued me though and I’m going to have to find my old copy and read it again.

I read the book (as a kid) and didn’t get that from it at all, but that sort of subtlety would have gone over my head. I’ll have to read it again if I can bring myself to do it.

I do remember seeing the movie after reading the book and being pretty annoyed as the movie only covers about the first half.

And Signs had Mel Gibson, so that’s really saying something.

With a can for scale. We just need another photo of a can next to a reference banana for full measurement traceability.

Try being a parent before judging one. Everything here rings true to someone with a young child and bills to pay.

Yes. If it’s a place someone lives in, the vampire cannot enter. It’s like an inherent “life force” that prevents them from entering, not the vampire’s knowledge.

That’s similar to saying “Auf Wiedersehen” translated to English is “until I see you again”, therefore “Auf Wiedersehen” is technically English. Just because there’s a recognised translation to a thing, that doesn’t make it that thing.

Britan: the tan you get by standing the the English rain.

Ikr. Python does kinda suck as a language.