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Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal
You surely know this: You're looking at some website with some useful shell commands. However, those commands are long as hell and you know you're probably not gonna need them for a few years or so (so there's no need to memorize them). So, what do you do? You copy-paste them. Here's an example:
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2013 | Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal by dave1010uk | 689 | 258 |
| Nov 12, 2015 | Don't copy paste from a website to a terminal by DAddYE | 665 | 244 |
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Linked from 62 Hacker News comments by 50 different people, from Apr 2013 to Apr 2026.
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