I copy/pasted the following 100 lines into my terminal (xterm) to execute those on a server I am connected to over ssh:
mv /long/path/to/file1 /longer/path/to/file1
mv /long/path/to/file2 /longer/path/to/file2
...
mv /long/path/to/file99 /longer/path/to/file99
mv /long/path/to/file100 /longer/path/to/file100
Unfortunately, after the copy/paste, I could not find my 100 files under /longer/path/to/
Looking at the bash history on the server I am connected to over ssh, I can see that after the first 20 commands, most of the commands got truncated:
mv /long/path/to/file1 /longer/path/to/file1
...
mv /long/path/to/file20 /longer/path/to/file20
mv /long/path/to/fi
mv /long/path/to/fi
mv /long/path/to/file23 /longer/p
mv /long/path/to/file24 /longer/path
mv /long/path/to/file25 /longer/p
mv /long/path/to/file26 /longer/p
mv /long/path/to/file27 /longer/path/t
mv /long/path/to/file28 /longer/path/to/fil
mv /long/path/to/file29 /longer/path/to/fil
mv /long/path/to/file30 /longer/path/to/file
mv /long/path/to/file31 /longer/path/to/file
...
I could find answers about how to work around this issue:
- How to paste multiple Bash commands without loosing some
- Commands pasted into terminal are truncated
But I could not find an explanation over what is exactly happening. Notably:
- is it a terminal-related issue (Xterm in my case)?
- the copy/paste occurs over
ssh: does this generate or magnify the issue? - is it a bash-related issue on the server? Would it maybe not happen with another shell?
