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Multiline commands trip students trying to copy and paste #4

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tskir opened this issue Oct 20, 2020 · 0 comments

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tskir commented Oct 20, 2020

Example:

read_alignment/practical/2020-NGSBio-Read-Alignment-Exercises.tex

Line 676 in ecc8b12

    
           bwa mem ../../ref/GRCm38.68.dna.toplevel.chr7.fa.gz md5638a\PYZus{}7\PYZus{}87000000\PYZus{}R1.fastq.gz md5638a\PYZus{}7\PYZus{}87000000\PYZus{}R2.fastq.gz \PYZgt{} md5638.sam

At least a half of students seem to try to copy and paste the command, which gets interpreted by bash as two separate (broken) commands.

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