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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers A copy paste problem with loops in bash Post 302438852 by creamcheese on Wednesday 21st of July 2010 03:30:24 AM
Old 07-21-2010
A copy paste problem with loops in bash
Hello All,

i have a really strange copy paste problem. When I write some loops in an editor for example:

Code:
for j in 1 2 3
do
  echo "$j"
done

and I want to paste it to the shell, the result in the shell is:

Code:
for j in 1 2 3; do e;

other commands work fine and if a copy paste the loop like this:

Code:
for j in 1 2 3; do echo "$j"; done

it works to. I probably disabled line breaks somehow by accident?

Any hints would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks Johannes
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

paste

PASTE(1)							   User Commands							  PASTE(1)

NAME

       paste - merge lines of files

SYNOPSIS

       paste [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Write  lines  consisting  of  the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output.  With no FILE, or
       when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -d, --delimiters=LIST
	      reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs

       -s, --serial
	      paste one file at a time instead of in parallel

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report paste bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report paste translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for paste is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and paste programs are properly installed  at  your  site,
       the command

	      info coreutils 'paste invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb					  September 2011							  PASTE(1)
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