Re:./watch
by 0xDEAFBEAD on Saturday October 18, 2025 @10:36PM
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A prompt including > can be dangerous since that character also does shell output redirection. A sloppy copy/paste could, in theory, overwrite an important file.
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Re:./watch
by swiftcoder on Sunday October 19, 2025 @03:53AM
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The usually trick here is to use a unicode character like ⟫ (U+27EB) instead, which looks basically the same, but isn't interpreted as a redirection by the shell