[t-3]

If a carpenter chops his fingers off, it's not the fault of the saw. People who use programs should be expected to know what's safe to put in and out. Having a base level expectation of competence for operators is normal.

A separate text input is just stdin by another name.

Yes, I believe people who paste URLs into the terminal should examine those URLs - you generally have to trim some stuff, quote, or rewrite things to make them useful. If you believe in wildly flinging data everywhere, good on you, I'd rather deal with easily avoidable problems such as demonstrated in TFA.

[unixbane]

> last paragraph

You can't safely paste anything into the shell ever lol. For multiple reasons. It doesn't matter how much visual inspection you do.

[verisimilitudes]

> If a carpenter chops his fingers off, it's not the fault of the saw.

That would be an effective argument, but this vile shit has existed for decades without being fixed, for no good reason. This saw is specifically designed to slice fingers off, rather than do useful work, for no reason.

> Having a base level expectation of competence for operators is normal.

UNIX expects perfection, while providing none of its own.

> A separate text input is just stdin by another name.

No, nitwit, it prevents in-band signalling, which is the entire problem here.

Anyway, I use Emacs for everything, and don't have these issues. With wget, I use -i - to enter multiple URLs at once, but it would also defeat this.

[unixbane]

Thanks for saving me a reply lol