I know there are a lot of threads, tutorials and questions about how to work around it, but I do not get, WHY you simply cannot use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to insert a line for example from the browser into the bash (Linux) / cmd (Windows).  Is there a specific reason why this isn't yet implemented?  It works like this:   Ctrl+C from the source Right Click -> Paste in the Bash or CMD
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When I copy something to the clipboard and press Ctrl + V in Bash, nothing happens; However, right clicking and selecting Paste does the job.  Why? Is there any reasonable issue (I'm sure there is) behind this behavior in Linux?
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Shells have a useful feature where pressing the keyboard UP arrow replaces the contents of the current command line with the previous command that was entered. (And if you do it again, the command before that, and so on.)  I would like a similar feature, where pressing (some other button) replaces the contents of the current command line with the last line of output from the previous command (and if you do it again, the previous line of output , and so on.)  Is there any shell that provides a feature like this?  The motivation is that you often want to run a command, and then run another command with part of the previous commands's output as input. (No, I don't want to do anything involving piping the output of one command into the next. I'm looking for an interactive experience, where you run the first command, see its output, and then get a line of that output into your next command, without having to reach for the mouse to do a clumsy copy-and-paste.)
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When I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 it goes to virtual terminal. What is this virtual terminal for? When do you need to use it?
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I have recently discovered that if we press Ctrl+X Ctrl+E, bash opens the current command in an editor (set in $VISUAL or $EDITOR) and executes it when the editor is closed. But it doesen't seem to be documented in the man pages.
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Bash offers many useful emacs-style keybindings for simple commandline editing. For example, Ctrl+w deletes ("kills") word left from the cursor.  Another keybinding, Alt+d is supposed to be a "mirror" of the first one. It is supposed to delete a word right from the cursor.  However, I have noticed, these two keybindings do not act completely symetricaly. Whereas Ctrl+w treats foo.bar as one word, Alt+d treats it as two words  Even more annoyingly, # echo are two words for Ctrl+w, but one word for Alt+d.  Is there some logic in this? Is there some reason why they don't treat words in the same way?  Is there any way for me to change this?  I am using bash on Debian Wheezy
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I am about to press enter to run a command in terminal, but before doing that, I want to copy the command to clipboard without using the mouse.  How?  If you're somewhere other than the terminal, Ctrl+Home does it.   Is there a way of arbitrarily selecting text like that in the terminal?  EDITED:    assume that using other programs like screen is not a good alternative the text is to be pasted outside the terminal, so Ctrl+y and similar sequences do not solve it either
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Is there a way to copy the currently written content of the bash prompt? Say I wrote:  ping www.google.com   so that the lines in terminal looks like:  petr@sova:~$ ping www.google.com   and didn't hit return yet. I want to copy that text to clipboard. Is that possible?  The usual usecase would be hitting up several times and finding a command which I want to copy.
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If I type ' (single quote, next to the &lt;enter&gt; button) in the terminal and then press enter it drops to a &gt; prompt.  What exactly is this, what's it used for, and what type of commands can I enter here?    I can &lt;Ctrl-C&gt; out of it but that's all I got.
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I have a windows application running at the backend. I have functions in this applications mapped to hot keys. Like if I put a message box into this function and give hot key as Alt+Ctrl+D. then on pressing Alt, Ctrl and D together the message box comes up. My application is working fine till this point.   Now I want to write a code inside this function so that when I am using another application like notepad, I select a particular line of text and press the hot key Alt + Ctrl + D it is supposed to copy the selected text append it with "_copied" and paste it back to notepad.   Anyone who has tried a similar application please help me with your valuable inputs.
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I want to create a keyboard shortcut to i.e. open Firefox while I am working in another application. I know I can use ⌘ CMD+T when I am in Firefox to open a new tab.   I haven't found a way to create that kind of shortcuts in System Preferences.  Any ideas?
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Can I configure it to allow:   select right-click to copy right-click or ctrl-v to paste?
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I'd like to be able to paste from the system clipboard (or text selection) into my "vi-like" shell prompt using the keyboard. I normally use zsh and sometimes bash. In both cases, I have the shell set up with vi-like behaviour (bindkey -v / set -o vi).   In vim, the behaviour I'm looking for is available with the key sequence "+p. This particular key sequence doesn't work as expected in a vi-enabled shell prompt, though. Is there any way to either enable this or a similar behaviour, using keyboard only, while remaining with vi-like keybindings in a zsh or bash shell prompt?  -- edit --  Usage case: I often navigate between Firefox with the , a terminal emulator and vim itself - using the  window manager with custom keys to move around. All three programs have vi-like keybindings, which is very efficient (for "finger memory") so it would be ideal communicate text between them using vim syntax (or a very similar syntax) only.
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Command + C does not always work on first try on any of my four Macs.  I often highlight text, press Command + C, head to another window, press Command + V only to find that the original text did not copy.   I recently installed a fresh copy of macOS High Sierra and I continue to run into this issue, particularly in RStudio.* The issue never occurs on my PCs.  Do others have this issue? How can I resolve this?  *I use bettersnaptool and enable three finger dragging, but the issue still appears when I disable them.
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I use bash on both my Mac and as my cygwin shell. Overall, I'm quite pleased with it.  My one complaint however is that its TAB completion isn't as good as Windows Command Line TAB completion.   For example, if there are two files with the same prefix, then bash just beeps at me when I try to TAB complete. If I keep nailing TAB, then it will eventually show me a list of potential files.  I definately prefer how Windows will cycle through potential files right on the command line.   Is there a way to get bash to operate similar to Windows Command Line in this regard?  If there isn't (I do not want to switch shells), am I missing something about TAB completion in bash? Is there a more efficient way to use it?
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I was just typing something along the lines of:  mv foo/bar/poit/zoid/narf.txt   and suddenly realized, damn, I have to type large parts of that parameter again  mv foo/bar/poit/zoid/narf.txt foo/bar/poit/zoid/troz.txt   Even with tabcompletion, quite a pain. I know I can copy paste the parameter by mouse-selecting the text and middleclick but that is not good enough. I want to remain on the keyboard.  So is there a way to copy paste the current parameter of the line using the keyboard?
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Let's say I have a script that I want to pipe to another command or redirect to a file (piping to sh for the examples). Assume that I'm using bash.  I could do it using echo:  echo "touch somefile echo foo &gt; somefile" | sh   I could also do almost the same thing using cat:  cat &lt;&lt; EOF touch somefile echo foo &gt; somefile EOF   But if I replace "EOF" with "EOF | sh" it just thinks that it's a part of the heredoc.  How can I make it so that cat outputs text from stdin, and then pipes it to an arbitrary location?
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I find that a lot of the time if I copy some text for example and then close the window being copied from, the paste function does not paste anything.  I've noticed this in Ubuntu 9.04 right up until present version. Is there a work around for this? Is there any reason why the developers are not looking into this?