Answer by Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' for Can the Bash shell "Ignore" Excess...
Instead of pasting into the terminal, have the command read from the clipboard. You can use xclip or xsel to print the clipboard content (or conversely write their input to the clipboard). xsel | perl...
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In addition to the "solution/work-around" by Jeff Schaller , the proper solution seems to be to make the environment aware of copy-paste, both from sender side and from receiver side, which is known as...
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This is not an answer, but maybe it's an acceptable work-around: alias p='perl; echo hit control-d again; cat > /dev/null' Then, if your perl script exits prematurely, you'll harmlessly paste the...
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Say, I have a "Quick&Dirty" Perl script in a gui text editor, and I start the Perl interpreter in a terminal window which is running Bash. I can copy-paste the Perl script to the terminal &...
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