Copy piece of text from one file to another in console

soup_sam

Assume the situation: you are sitting at physical terminal which consists of display + keyboard, no mouse, of the machine with some modern UNIX-like system (assume one of: some Linux-based OS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD). There is no graphical desktop on this machine, i.e. you need to work solely in the text console mode. You need to work at the physical console described above, you can't access machine remotely with SSH/anything else. Task: You...

Originally asked by ivan.ukr on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

So, the one way of doing that is following: Open first file with vim , i.e. vim first-file-name . In vim, open second file using :tabnew second-file-name . Switch to the first file using gT / gt / :tabn / :tabp / :tabfirst / :tablast . Navigate to the text you want to copy. Switch to visual mode (press v ) and select text. Press y to copy ("yank") selected text. Switch to the second file using gT / gt / :tabn / :tabp / :tabfirst / :tablast . Navigate to the place where the previously copied text should be inserted. Press p to paste text. Save file, if required. ( :w ) Done!

Full answer by ivan.ukr: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/1929944 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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