Funny thing, I've pasted wrong text into the terminal on multiple occasions—from having copypasted some paragraphs of text and immediately forgetting about that

Funny thing, I've pasted wrong text into the terminal on multiple occasions—from having copypasted some paragraphs of text and immediately forgetting about that. Each time I expect my files to be botched, but the worst that's happened so far is some unwanted files appearing due to ‘>’ being there in the text.