tag 17618 notabug close 17618 stop On 05/28/2014 02:36 PM, Michał Adamczyk wrote: > Call it a bug or call it a feature. It is dangerous though. > > When using `ls -l` to list a directory with links in it, it will produce an > output similar to this: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 30 1980-01-01 00:01 link_name -> > /path/to/destination/file > > Pretty cool, huh? > However, if you select this line and accidentally hit right mouse button, > it'll get copied to your prompt. And if you select more than one line, it'll > get copied with \n which will get interpreted as if you pushed the Enter. > > So the whole line gets interpreted as a command: > lrwxrwxrwx [no such command] 1 user group 30 1980-01-01 00:01 link_name - > [parameters for non-existing command] > /path/to/destination/file [redirect > output to that file] > > Since the output is empty, you'll get the target of that link overwritten > with an empty file. > > My suggestion is to change the representation symbols of link to something > that won't get interpreted.
I see the issue. Though I don't think there is anything we can do just to backwards compat. I'm sure there are scripts somewhere depending on the '->' portion. You're free to change that yourself though with a wrapper. See http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/l for example which uses '▪▶' instead. thanks, Pádraig.
