How can I prevent accidental pasting in bash?

bash is old enough that I doubt anyone has put something like that in. Might be something better implemented in the terminal-- are you using a local tty or some sort of remote terminal app?

Ben, I'm using OS X 10.4. Bash is the default shell, and so far I love it (-:
Would you recommend a shell change?

No, but I might recommend a terminal change (=

Are you using the built-in Apple terminal?

Yep. Don't suggest iTerm - I tried it for a while, couldn't see the point really. And mostly, I use too many macs; I don't like having crutches that I require that don't come default on a system for that very reason d-: hehe

there is no paste prevention built into bash... and i don't like iterm either...

Sam - would you suggest something else?

oh, i use the built in terminal. for me, terminal work doesn't need anything fancy: text in and text out and get it done. of course, i also like textedit better than almost any other text editor, so maybe i'm weird...

Well... you could just write paste protection into bash (http://directory.fsf.org/bash.html) or iterm (http://iterm.sf.net)... =)