On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 15:16:32, Paul wrote (my
responses usually follow points raised):
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 at 22:16:26, Char Jackson
wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):
On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 18:45:05 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:
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2021.04.07, checked, and now have 2021.04.17 . (Yes, it's a
command-line prog.; however, you can put your garlic and crucifix away -
it's dead easy to use: most of the time, just giving it the URL suffices
[and that's pastable - alt-space E P].)

Or, if your hand happens to be on or near the mouse, you can paste with a
single right-click.

Wow, just tried that, and it can even include an enter on the end!
(Though as my hands are on the keyboard anyway from typing youtube-dl
[and a space], I might not use it. But thanks!)

Yes, you will learn about the "pasting an enter" thing,
when you have just crafted a devastating "disk erase"
command, made a typo, and after clicking the mouse
button, realize your mistake. For example, you can quite
easily erase a partition using Robocopy. Just type
the wrong drive letter, is enough to do it.

Take great care to *not* copy the CR on the end :-/

You remind me of the - almost certainly apocryphal! - story of the guy
who'd just finished proudly giving a lecture on his new speech
recognition system and invited the audience to try it out, and some wag
from the back yelled out "format space see colon enter why enter".

Been there and bought that TShirt.

Any time you are doing Command Line work, relax, and
take your time. Caffeine fueled typing, whacking the
return with glee, is not recommended. The cleanup after
a mistake, is going to take a hell of a lot longer,
than slapping in typos in a mad rush. Slow and steady
wins the race.

Paul

The only time I'm likely to be pasting into a command window or similar
these days is giving a parameter (a URL) to youtube-dl, or editing my
quotes file (which I still do in the text editor in XTGOLD, for
historical reasons!).
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

… too popular actually to be any good. - Alison Graham in Radio Times 2-8
February 2013