3
$ execute_some_long_command
<command is executing>
<Accidently press middle button that inserts bunch of garbage (including, for example, `rm -Rf ~/*`) into console>
How to let execute_some_long_command finish, but not execute inserted things?
3
$ execute_some_long_command
<command is executing>
<Accidently press middle button that inserts bunch of garbage (including, for example, `rm -Rf ~/*`) into console>
How to let execute_some_long_command finish, but not execute inserted things?
4
Type Ctrl+Z (goes back to prompt, doesn't execute keyboard buffer) and then fg
to get the running execute_some_long_command
back on track.
At least that worked in my Fedora 14 gnome-terminal, testing with sleep 20
as execute_some_long_command
and echo blah
as the typed garbage.