> | in bash, although the line gets pasted, the newline at the end of it > | somehow doesn't. When > >This is a recent bash (IMO mis-)feature -
I absolutely agree with your opinion on this topic. >I believe there's an option (run time) to return to sanity, as I think I >set it ... but just now I cannot find it! A quick web search for "bash xterm paste newline" turns up https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/633370/bash-needs-another-newline-to-execute-pasted-lines The summary is to add the following entry to ~/.inputrc set enable-bracketed-paste off I just tried this, and it works. Thank you for pointing that out! - Steven -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Steven Winikoff | "Science is built upon facts, as a house is Montreal, QC, Canada | built of stones; but an accumulation of s...@smwonline.ca | facts is no more a science than a heap of http://smwonline.ca | stones is a house." | - Henri Poincaré