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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: 0.21s | source
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alejohausner ◴[17 Mar 21 19:40 UTC] No.26495917[source]▶
This was never an issue when shells were first invented, because there were no mice. You could not select a region of the screen with the mouse, so there were no cut-and-paste errors like these.

If I want repeat an earlier command, I use the up-arrow, or bang:

!a repeats the last command that began with an "a".

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1. JdeBP ◴[18 Mar 21 00:47 UTC] No.26498608[source]▶
The computer mouse, in its current form, was invented half a decade before Unix itself was. This should be qualified with: there were no mice on the machines that ran Unix.