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#1 2018-06-01 20:26:37
- CarterCox
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CLI - Copying and pasting text from CLI web browser
Hi. So I am trying to set up a server, and I don't want to install a DE to save space. But setting up apache and the other things takes a lot of typing and editing files.
So say I'm using any CLI web browser (link, elinks, lynx, etc.). How can I copy and paste some text into a text file?
Maybe I can create a text file with a website and then cat|grep the part I want to append it to the desired text file, so the traditional copy/paste is not really a requirement.
Thanks for any info you can provide!
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#2 2018-06-01 20:31:13
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Re: CLI - Copying and pasting text from CLI web browser
I believe you can run everything within tmux panes and use its copy/paste functionality.
| alias CUTF='LANG=en_XX.UTF-8@POSIX ' | alias ENGLISH='LANG=C.UTF-8 ' |
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#3 2018-06-01 20:54:08
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#4 2018-06-01 21:44:25
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Re: CLI - Copying and pasting text from CLI web browser
If you're working directly on the machine, install the gpm package and start/enable the gpm.service, copy text by selecting it with the left mouse button and paste it with middle mouse button
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#5 2018-06-01 22:13:32
- CarterCox
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Re: CLI - Copying and pasting text from CLI web browser
@progandy: Thanks for the reply. The answer from lula seems easier (I think). I just tried that one first and I can copy/paste without any fuzz. Thanks again!
@Slithery: It's the only Linux computer I have, plus I never used SSH, and I don't need it for now, so I'm not interested in learning how to use it 
Thanks!
@lula: That works like a charm. I always wondered how to use the mouse in the CLI. Great info. Thanks!
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#6 2018-06-01 22:29:49
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Re: CLI - Copying and pasting text from CLI web browser
If you find gpm easier, then good for you. I try to use the mouse as little as possible, so it never occured to me 
@Slithery: It's the only Linux computer I have, plus I never used SSH, and I don't need it for now, so I'm not interested in learning how to use it
That doesn't matter, you can run PuTTY on windows to connect to an SSH server on your linux machine.
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| alias CUTF='LANG=en_XX.UTF-8@POSIX ' | alias ENGLISH='LANG=C.UTF-8 ' |
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#7 2018-06-01 22:55:29
- CarterCox
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Re: CLI - Copying and pasting text from CLI web browser
If you find gpm easier, then good for you. I try to use the mouse as little as possible, so it never occured to me
Yeah, I don't have anything against the poor old mouse. The Gentoo installer has it enabled and I always wondered how to do that.
That doesn't matter, you can run PuTTY on windows to connect to an SSH server on your linux machine.
I imagined there would be some way to do it. Thanks!
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#8 2018-06-02 05:52:31
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Re: CLI - Copying and pasting text from CLI web browser
I imagined there would be some way to do it.
or Windows Powershell linux you can SSH and copy paste to/from
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