Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 3/22/07, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On 3/21/07, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I regularly agree to a certain Terms of Use. The first time I did
it, I
>> was in a hurry and didn't do my normal review of it. What I did
instead
>> was to click-n-drag to highlight the whole thing, opened an editor,
>> middle-clicked (to paste), and saved it (calling it eula).
>>
>> Each day, I'm required to agree to the same Terms of Use. At least I
>> want to make sure that it is the same. So what I do each time is
>> highlight the entire text of it, open the editor, paste it, and
save it
>> as fula. I wrote a simple bash script to compare the two files, and
>> another simple bash script to delete fula (so that the next time I
tell
>> the editor to save as fula, it doesn't ask me "Are you nutz? Are you
>> *sure* you want to over write the one you already have?").
>>
>> Here's my question: Is there a way that I can (after I highlight the
>> entire text of the Terms of Use, as currently displayed) compare the
>> contents of the clipboard (or whatever the appropriate name)
directly to
>> the file "eula"?
>>
>
> Use a different editor? Don't use an editor at all?
>
> $ cat > fula # cursor advances to next line, you paste from
> the clipboard and
> # type <enter> <ctrl-D>
> $
>
> carl
$ cat > fula
I see no results from "paste from clipboard" here. Either the paste
didn't work or my instructions did not come through clearly. The
contents of the clipboard should show up on the terminal screen when
they are pasted.
I *had* not read correctly your instruction. I tried again, and got a
fula that matches eula perfectly except for an extra character at the
end. I tried your instruction yet again, only this time without the
<enter>, and got a fula the same size as eula and diff offered nothing.
Is there a way during pasting to suppress the screen output?
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