On 2/28/18 12:41 PM, Benqzq wrote: > I wrote a minimal, detailed, replicable and markdowned description of the > problem in the following link and I report this after days of testing and > not "on the fly": > > https://serverfault.com/questions/898964/copy-paste-into-digitalocean-modified-ubuntu-bash-includes-dots-instead-tabulati
You know, I bet it's something in your programmable completion environment. You're probably not using bracketed-paste mode, and there's no indication you turned off line editing, so the TABs input to an interactive shell result in an attempt to perform word completion. Maybe that's what is adding the `.'. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/