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>11.12. Having the Prompt Ignored on Cut and Paste</H1
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>This one is weird but cool. Rory Toma <TT
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> . How is this useful? You can triple click on any previous
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command (in Linux,
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anyway) to highlight the whole line, then paste that line in front of
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another prompt and the stuff between the ":" and the """ is ignored,
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like so: </P
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>: rory@demon ; uptime
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5:15pm up 6 days, 23:04, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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: rory@demon ; : rory@demon ; uptime
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5:15pm up 6 days, 23:04, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00</PRE
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>The prompt is a no-op, and if your PS2 is set to a space, multiple lines
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