Terminal and Paste Extra Characters

[asker777]

I'm new back to Linux after a long pause. I need to often copy and paste commands but the terminal adds characters and I have to go back and delete them which is very annoying.

Any other terminals that don't do this or other advice??

Thank you.

 

[KGIII]

You mean characters are added when you type? If you press 'special' keys, that is keys that don't output text/characters, this is pretty normal. Keys like INS, a shift key + directional key, will spew garbage into the terminal as they're unsupported actions.

 

[asker777]

I haven't been able to duplicate it. It doesn't happen every time but regularly. There will be a caret and 2 left brackets, number 200, tilde, and a tilde at the end.

OK, duplicated...I think it might be because I was using ctrl>V out of habit which doesn't show up and then using paste from the command line.

Thanks for answering, it helped to work through it. Hopefully, I think that is the problem.

 

[Condobloke]

fwiw....when pasting into terminal, I use :

ctrl+shift+v

 

[asker777]

Great! Thank you.

 

[KGIII]

Hopefully, I think that is the problem.

That sounds right. Not all key combinations work as expected. Like SHIFT + CTRL + C should copy without adding any extra bits to your clipboard memory in most terminals.

 

[asker777]

That sounds right. Not all key combinations work as expected. Like SHIFT + CTRL + C should copy without adding any extra bits to your clipboard memory in most terminals.

Very helpful also. Thank you.

 

[truckerDave]

ctrl+shift+v

SHIFT + CTRL + C

Thanks for those tidbits!

Will switch to using those when I get home next. I've been noticing the same issue the OP has had and thought it was just something everyone probably dealt with.