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Do not use redirection characters in your shell prompt

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217 points tanelpoder | 1 comments | 17 Mar 21 14:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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marcosdumay ◴[17 Mar 21 17:34 UTC] No.26494383[source]▶
I guess the most important message isn't even "don't paste things into the terminal". It's "don't use a terminal that pastes things automatically, or by some action you will do by mistake".

Or, more specifically, don't ever use the default behavior of putty in a laptop with a trackpad and a gesture enabled for left click. If you use putty, set copy and paste to something less random.

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stelliosk ◴[17 Mar 21 17:54 UTC] No.26494657[source]▶
Always enable the option 'confirm paste' if available in an terminal emulator.
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1. pcl ◴[17 Mar 21 18:37 UTC] No.26495150[source]▶
iTerm has great behavior here — it allows painless pasting of things without newlines, but prompts for pasteboard contents that contain newlines.