Re: pasting several lines into the shell

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jul 31 08:37, Denis Excoffier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Starting with the 20130726 snapshot, i have problems with the
> clipboard.
> Not the clipboard itself, but the capability to paste into the shell
> in order to execute a command containing several lines (or several
> commands).
> 
> % cat copypaste
> /bin/cp \
>   ./copypaste \
>   /tmp
> % putclip < copypaste
> % getclip
> /bin/cp \
>   ./copypaste \
>   /tmp
> %
> 
> At this point, if i paste (middle button on my mouse) this text
> (3 lines) inside a shell (can be tcsh or bash) in an xterm, sometimes
> it works and the cp command is executed. But very often i get:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> %
>   ./copypaste \
> ?  /bin/cp \
> ?
> /bin/cp: cannot create regular file `/bin/cp': File exists
> %
> %   / t/mtp? m
> /: No match.
> % p

I can reproduce the effect, and it looks like this is the result of
an accidental checkin.  Thanks for the hint.


Corinna

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