Useful copy/paste trick in CMD.EXE

re: Useful copy/paste trick in CMD.EXE

Michael Kaplan — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 02:33:00 GMT

Another trick to avoid the menus -- select the text and click <ENTER> to copy, then you can hit the right mouse button to paste it.

It also requires the "Quick Edit" mode to do the copying part.

re: Useful copy/paste trick in CMD.EXE

David Cumps — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 03:22:00 GMT

I always copy paste like this:

Right-click, select Mark. Select the text to be copied.
(I used to be able to just select stuff, but now I can't anymore :p)

Right-click (it's copied now)

Paste it anywhere you like (if it's in a prompt, right click paste works just as fast)

re: Useful copy/paste trick in CMD.EXE

Sahil Malik — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 04:30:00 GMT

I am very very used to

ALT+SPACE+E+K <-- for copy . and
ALT+SPACE+E+P <-- for paste.

Easy inuff !!

re: Useful copy/paste trick in CMD.EXE

Pavel Lebedinsky — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 04:36:00 GMT

> and the selection of the text to copy can only be done through the mouse

Not quite true. You can do Alt+Space, Edit | Mark, move the cursor with the arrow keys, hold down Shift to select.

re: Useful copy/paste trick in CMD.EXE

Jeff Atwood — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:07:00 GMT

> he selection of the text to copy can only be done through the mouse.

As stated above, not true.. ALT+SPACE, E, K, arrows, shift+arrows, enter. That gets the highlighted selection in the clipboard.

re: Useful copy/paste trick in CMD.EXE

Joku — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:39:00 GMT

With quickedit enabled, you can do even better:

Select while LMB is down, then right click copies and second right click pastes..

But the REAL issue & question of eternity is, how can I copy a traceroute output intact (not word wrapper) from cmd window, without resizing the width to accommodate the text. Currently I have to paste it to notepad and manually fix the line endings by deleting the unnecessary crlf's.

re: Useful copy/paste trick in CMD.EXE

Joku — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:40:00 GMT

Oh.. And second question.. Why is the quickedit disabled by default? I have not yet found good reason for this.

re: Useful copy/paste trick in CMD.EXE

Adi Oltean — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:16:00 GMT

>>> But the REAL issue & question of eternity is, how can I copy a traceroute output intact (not word wrapper) from cmd window, without resizing the width to accommodate the text. Currently I have to paste it to notepad and manually fix the line endings by deleting the unnecessary crlf's.

Probably you can simply output the traceroute output into a text file? Or, if you need only certain columns to be isolated, you can use the FOR command.

E:\Documents and Settings\Adi>for /f "tokens=8*" %i in ('tracert www.google.com') do @echo %i
evrtwa1-ar18-4-41-208-001.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net
4.24.53.225
p7-0.evrtwa1-cr6.bbnplanet.net
p7-0.evrtwa1-br2.bbnplanet.net
so-5-1-0.mp2.Seattle1.Level3.net
so-0-2-0.bbr2.SanJose1.Level3.net
ge-11-2.ipcolo2.SanJose1.Level3.net
unknown.Level3.net
64.233.175.89
216.239.49.170
216.239.49.97
216.239.57.104

>>> Oh.. And second question.. Why is the quickedit disabled by default? I have not yet found good reason for this.

I don't know the answer either. I heard (vaguely) that certain DOS applications will break when this is enabled. Raymond Chen would know for sure :-)

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