Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1791337
Title:
Terminal should prompt for confirmation before pasting text containing
newlines
Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Steps to reproduce:
- copy some texts that includes newline characters
- paste it (usually accidentally) in a terminal
Expected behavior:
Before pasting something that will be executed (because newline characters
will be processed as if hitting the Enter key), the terminal should prompt for
confirmation.
OR at least, what you paste should be only displayed and not actually
processed until you press the Enter key.
THIS SHOULD BE F***ING OBVIOUS, I can't believe I have to report this.
Observed behavior:
blindly pastes everything and executes each line as a command.
THIS IS F***ING DANGEROUS.
It's too easy to forget to copy what you actually meant to copy, or
forget you copied something else afterwards, and accidentally paste a
random block of text of several lines which usually isn't even shell
commands, but some of them can actually happen to be valid commands
that actually do stuff.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.18.3-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-134.160-generic 4.4.140
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-134-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Sep 7 18:32:28 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (1791 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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