Terminal occasionally shows duplicate command text when it is split over multiple lines
Ray Satiro
raysatiro@yahoo.com
Wed Aug 25 06:42:11 GMT 2021
On 8/23/2021 6:15 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 23.08.2021 um 23:52 schrieb Ray Satiro via Cygwin:
>> I'm using cygwin x86 updated yesterday and when I paste in commands
>> that are split over multiple lines sometimes an arbitrary line will
>> show more than once, even though it is not actually part of the
>> command more than once. For example here's a command:
>>
>> echo foo \bar \baz \qux
>>
>> And here's the terminal output when I paste it in:
>>
>> $ echo foo \qux
>>> bar \> baz \> quxfoo bar baz qux
>> $ echo foo \baz \> bar \> baz \> quxfoo bar baz qux
> Please provide a clear test case. How exactly would your clipboard
> have multiple lines? Your example is only one line.
My mail client did that. Here I'll try again:
echo foo \
bar \
baz \
qux
$ echo foo \
baz \
qux
> bar \
> baz \
> qux
foo bar baz qux
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