This is the real solution! I think every shell supports "safe paste" in some way. For example, here's something for Zsh: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob

This is the real solution! I think every shell supports "safe paste" in some way. For example, here's something for Zsh: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/plugins/safe-paste/safe-paste.plugin.zsh https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/plugins/safe-... This works great in combination with another advanced feature, "edit command" or "edit and execute command". Once you've pasted a command into the terminal, even a multiline command with safe paste, you can have the shell open your $EDITOR to edit the command, and automatically put the result right back into the shell (or just run it). This is available in Bash by default as ctrl-x ctrl-e. (And as someone else pointed out below, if you don't want to enable safe paste, you can open the editor first on a blank command line and paste into that. But really we should all enable safe paste.)