Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Copying text from GNU screen to clipboard
Copying text from GNU screen to clipboard
GNU Screen is a great tool for command line junkies, who have declared war against the useless device called Mouse. But, it has a learning curve. I was looking for a way to copy text from my terminal to the system clipboard and a great SO answer helped me [ http://stackoverflow.com/a/16286619 ].
Heres the summary
Copy text from your screen session into GNU screens copy buffer.
Run this command within screen: cat | xsel -b
Dump screens copy buffer to STDIN: Ctrl+a+]
Send an EOF to cat to terminate it: Ctrl+d
Heres the summary
Copy text from your screen session into GNU screens copy buffer.
Run this command within screen: cat | xsel -b
Dump screens copy buffer to STDIN: Ctrl+a+]
Send an EOF to cat to terminate it: Ctrl+d
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