Copy-pasting output of 'ls -l' containing symbolic links into a linux terminal will truncate target of the symlink
Issue
- If you copy+paste the output of 'ls -l' containing symbolic links into a linux terminal you will zero out (truncate) the target of the symlink.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (any release)
- Fedora Linux (any release)
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