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Did you know?

Steam chat, the thing you use while playing games, mangles your messages for you... It's especially interesting when sending shell commands.

  • ~/.ssh/config becomes http://ssh/config
  • $HOME/.ssh/config becomes http://HOME/.ssh/config
  • ${HOME}/.ssh/config becomes http://HOME}/.ssh/config

It seems like some space-delimited character sequences containing / get http:// added at the start, after all non-alphanumeric gets removed from the start.

The workaround

Just avoid /.

In bash, you can use echo -en, e.g.:

  • $ nano "$HOME$(echo -en \\x2F).ssh$(echo -en \\x2F)config" for $ nano ~/.ssh/config.
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