Copy & Paste using Keyboard ONLY in Terminal?

[GMHilltop]

I've installed linux server 12.04 LTS and I have run

sudo blkid

I want to edit the fstab file so another partition is mounted automatically and I wanted to copy and paste the uuid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

. . . how do I do that without the mouse?

Thanks

[alarme]

Hi:

# first, make a backup
cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak

# append output of blkid at the end of fstab
sudo blkid >> /etc/fstab

# CAUTION:
# >> append
# > OVERWRITE - delete original contents of the file begin redirected

# edit fstab
sudo nano /etc/fstab

# in nano:
# ctrl+U cut
# ctrl+K paste

Cheers

[GMHilltop]

Thanks alarme. That helps

Learning how to work in terminal is coming slowly, but surely.
I am sort of surprised that there isn't a more graceful way to handle this.

If the output were to be 'Huge' it could hammer in a awful lot of crap at the end of a file when all you want is one line.

So far I've been pleasantly surprised with navigating and the shortcuts (like hitting TAB) in terminal - this is the first thing that I've run into that seem rather archaic.

Is this the ONLY way of dealing with this sort of a situation?

[kpothi]

If you are looking for keyboard shortcuts and if ctrl+c and ctrl+v didn't work for copy & paste, then you may use ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v to do the same as mentioned in the help page for working with terminal.

[nerdtron]

GMHilltop : Be at home in the command line. I recommend this free ebook. Easy to read and follow. http://www.rigacci.org/docs/biblio/o...TLCL-09.12.pdf

[SeijiSensei]

You can also use Ctrl-K to cut from the cursor position to the end of the line, and Ctrl-Y to retrieve ("yank") the cut text. These are the same commands used in Emacs and Emacs clones like jed.

[GMHilltop]

Thanks everyone for the help. There simply doesn't seem to be a 'nice' way to do it.

The second post vyalarme here works best for my purposes although the WARNING IS WELL NOTED - the difference between ONE ' > ' and TWO ' >> ' could be disastrous!
Like I said, I'd have thought there would have been a better way to do this by now considering how long linux has been running. Oh well.

ctrl+v, ctrl+shift+v, etc simply do not work.

I'll just have to get used to the way of copying and pasting with VIM and NANO

Thanks again everyone.

[volkswagner]

Using SSH to connect with a terminal app gives the greatest joy using copy/paste for text console tasks.

[GMHilltop]

Can you use the same method for copying info from one file to another?

In other words:

sudo /etc/my_first_file >> /etc/my_2nd_file

Will that append the data in the first file to the 2nd?

[GMHilltop]

I am not sure what I am doing wrong:

sudo blkid>>test_file 
-bash: test_file: Permission denied

I created an empty file with

touch test_file

Everything is owned by root, what am I missing?
Why is the permission denied?