Marking & copying text from the cmd (DOS) window

On Sun, 01 Dec 2013 12:11:41 -0800, David E. Ross wrote:

I must be the only one who uses this method:

right-click Select All select text right-click on the selection
Ctrl+V

In a DOS window???

Uhuh, Start cmd ...

Edit Copy is grayed-out. AFAIK this has always been the case (win2k,
XP, W7).

[5 seconds later]

In Properties I checked [v] QuickEdit Mode and I can now select
right-click the selection (which seems to be the same thing as copy) and
then Ctrl+V (or right-click Paste).

Sweet!

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In article , lid says...

When you right click the mouse in the cmd window and choose the Mark
option, you can highlight a box of text in the window. However, I don't
know how to copy the text in the highlighted box to save it in the
notepad, for instance. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V doesn't seem to do it. So what
does?

Hit Enter, as others have said. Another trick is to pipe the output
into the CLIP command; then you can paste into any other application.
E.g;

dir | clip

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Phil, London

On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:52:00 -0000, Philip Herlihy wrote:
Another trick is to pipe the output
into the CLIP command; then you can paste into any other application.
E.g;

dir | clip



I had forgotten about this one. Thanks for reminding us!

I like it because, unlike right-click and Mark, it knows about
differing line lengths.

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On 12/04/2013, Stan Brown posted:
On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:52:00 -0000, Philip Herlihy wrote:
Another trick is to pipe the output
into the CLIP command; then you can paste into any other application.
E.g;

dir | clip



I had forgotten about this one. Thanks for reminding us!

I like it because, unlike right-click and Mark, it knows about
differing line lengths.

I hadn't forgotten it, I didn't know it. Thanks, Philip.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)