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[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 7/10/10 17:42 , Scott Haneda wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>> On 7/10/10 05:19 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> I don't know how I would accomplish such a thing unintentionally, however.
>>
>> Select it, copy, accidentally paste right back into that (or another)
>> Terminal window.  I've done it more than once.
> 
> What is 'it'?  You mean I may have had all those items in my shell, copied them, or copied them from elsewhere, and had a leading `touch` in my shell, and pasted it in?

Sorry for the shorthand.  You had selected and copied the output from a
"port install" command, probably intending to paste it somewhere else;
accodentally pasting that into a Terminal window sitting at a
shell prompt will try to execute that output as commands.  Check your shell
history for "--->".

(In case you're wondering, pasting "---> Computing dependencies for
<something>" into a shell will result in the shell creating a file called
"Computing" and complaining about not being able to find a command called
"---", which it will have attempted to run with the parameters
"dependencies", "for", and <something>.)

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university      KF8NH
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