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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: 0.389s | source
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jandrese ◴[17 Mar 21 15:32 UTC] No.26492618[source]▶
This seems to be more of "don't paste garbage into a terminal, especially as root." With a sidenote that it might be safer if your custom application command interpreter didn't use > as the prompt character. I note that Bourne shell defaults to the safer % and # characters for the prompt. The # character for root is especially safe.
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1. eythian ◴[18 Mar 21 11:07 UTC] No.26501459[source]▶
I feel a better takeaway is "people are sometimes going to mess up, if you can do something easy to make those mess-ups less serious, it's probably worthwhile."