Strange issue with paste on zsh

Kuldeep Bora <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jul 2026 18:32:55 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel
Message-ID <CAO9bunNGKChTMv5ycOrXOv185wYb8NP-8grObXBDQcZb90bUDw@mail.gmail.com>
I noticed something weird while pasting a long identifier in one of the
commands. Please see below output and notice pop6p*k*j


❯ # Output of echo <followed by Ctrl-V> on zsh vs bash

~
❯ echo anuwcljtymy7j7ya6uhzt2kidzqlqsbpop6pjgddszcq6ul27lbxr52d7fq
anuwcljtymy7j7ya6uhzt2kidzqlqsbpop6pjgddszcq6ul27lbxr52d7fq

~
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bash-3.2$ echo anuwcljtymy7j7ya6uhzt2kidzqlqsbpop6pkjgddszcq6ul27lbxr52d7fq
anuwcljtymy7j7ya6uhzt2kidzqlqsbpop6pkjgddszcq6ul27lbxr52d7fq