copy output of terminal in question

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I failed to copy/paste print screen output in my question box. How to copy/paste output of a shell command from terminal screen to askubuntu question box?

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 07 '14 at 09:51

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Just select the region of text in the Terminal.
Right click on it.
Select Copy.
Right click on Askubuntu question area.
Select Paste.

Also you can use Ctrl+Shift+C to copy and Ctrl+Shift+V to paste

** You can also Paste it at pastebin.ubuntu.com and put the link at askubuntu question.

** Also you can use the application pastebinit to send the terminal output directly to the pastebin.ubuntu.com

sudo apt-get install pastebinit

edited Jul 07 '14 at 09:51

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answered Jul 07 '14 at 01:18

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You can also use pastebinit. – Panther Jul 07 '14 at 01:24
sure, pastebin is helpful for lengthy output. – Panther Jul 07 '14 at 03:50
You can also press Ctrl-Shift-C to copy from a terminal (and similarly with V to paste) - this helps on laptops where trying to right click might destroy the selection. – Riking Jul 07 '14 at 06:57

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:18

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In terminal the shortcuts are a bit different: CtrlShiftC for copy and CtrlShiftV for paste (because CtrlC and CtrlV are already occupied by other functions). A very detailed answer has been posted here.

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answered Jul 07 '14 at 06:06

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 07 '14 at 01:33

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Which OS are you running? If it's Linux, and you're using mouse, middle-click should also work in most apps: select some text, then left-click where it must be pasted, and middle-click to paste.

answered Jul 07 '14 at 01:33

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 07 '14 at 01:52

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Also, usually with the terminal, simply highlighting text can copy it and as mentioned, middle clicking will paste the selected text.

answered Jul 07 '14 at 01:52

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If that worked for you, would you mind checking off my answer? – ryekayo Jul 08 '14 at 20:05

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