bash script fails

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When verifying my PGP key, I opted to go the bash script route. I copied and pasted the command that popped up in the modal, but it failed when pasted in the terminal:

Error in your post
-------------------

Code: 100
Name: INPUT_ERROR
Description: bad base 64 string

I had to end up pasting the contents in a bash script and getting rid of some extraneous newlines at the beginning of the command to get it to work correctly.

[maxtaco]

Yeah likely the post was truncated due to shell limits.

On Monday, October 3, 2016, Andrew Walton notifications@github.com wrote:

When verifying my PGP key, I opted to go the bash script route. I copied
and pasted the command that popped up in the modal, but it failed when
pasted in the terminal:

Error in your post

Code: 100
Name: INPUT_ERROR
Description: bad base 64 string

I had to end up pasting the contents in a bash script and getting rid of
some extraneous newlines at the beginning of the command to get it to work
correctly.

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[S0AndS0]

I've run into this issue on every operation that I've tried and found that till it is fixed there's one good option. But first a possible solution.

Possible solution

Perhaps the browser prompt is using markdown rendering rules, in which case removing the syntax language from the triple backtick that opens the code block should fix this issue. See the second code block verses the first within this comment in raw formatting mode.

Option one

Save browser's copy/past to terminal text editor

nano /tmp/validate.sh

paste into the above new document, then correct mangled new-lines. Hint every line but the last should have an escape (\) at the end.

change execution permission for the above file.

chmod 700 /tmp/validate.sh
### hey devs, special note for you all here. Looks like new lines (especially on mobile) get modified when
### using [```bash] for markdown rendering of code. This comment however didn't use [bash] or anything else but three back ticks to open and close
### so this comment should have a scroll bar at the bottom.