How do you paste some file names into your terminal console and process them when they are separated by new-lines? I thought the solution would be to group them somehow using () or {} or [], but none of those worked for me. Finally I tried using quotes and that did the trick. <pre> for f in '/usr/share/doc/python-soaplib/examples/async.py /usr/share/doc/python-soaplib/examples/binary.py /usr/share/doc/python-soaplib/examples/override.py' ; do cp $f .; done </pre> This processes one file at a time using a for-loop. The loop variable is f. Semi-colons separate the commands. do and done mark the loop boundaries. The key-strokes to accomplish this, after the file names had been copied into the buffer were: =for f in '{shift-control-v}' ; do cp $f .; done= where {shift-control-v} means to press Shift and Ctrl and V together, much as you'd do for a capital V, but also holding down the Ctrl key. -- %MAINWEB%.LloydKvam - 22 Jul 2011
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