What the heck is this in my ~

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 10, 2010, at 16:42, 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?

He means you had part of the output of "port install something" on the clipboard, and pasted it into the terminal.


> I have my bash_history set to, among other things:
>    export HISTCONTROL="ignoredups"
>    export HISTSIZE=2500
> 
> Here is a snip of the port commands I have used from a `grep -i port ~/.bash_history`
>    $grep -i port ~/.bash_history 
>    port info smartmontools
>    sudo port -d install smartmontools +universal
>    port smartmontools
>    port info smartmontools
>    sudo port install smartmontools
>    port contents --->  Computing dependencies for smartmontools

Well, there you go: right there, you created the empty file "Computing" in whatever directory you were in when you ran that command (and received the error message "Error: contents does not accept ---").