On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 08:24:55AM +0100, Jon Clayden wrote: > Surely it would be possible, however, for the shell to ignore the > ellipsis/newline sequence, at the very least? Rewriting the command to > remove it would be better still, but perhaps that's more tricky.
Possible, but hardly desirable. In general, programming a shell to second-guess user input is not a good practice. Suppose I wanted to enter an ellipsis character followed by a newline in some script I was writing on the command line; with a change as you describe, this is no longer possible. pants.
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