On 3/22/07, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
The <enter> was to make sure that the text was properly terminated so
that ^D would
end the "cat" command. Looks like your sample in the paste buffer did
not need that.
Is there a way during pasting to suppress the screen output?
I don't know of any using standard utilities. I looked around for a
bit with Google and didn't get any more clues.
carl
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