cutting and pasting text on the command line

sigint-ninja · 03-26-2016, 08:14 PM

hi guys,

say i have a command line with text
$belongs here this

and i want to move this to the beginning of the line
is there an easy way to cut and paste text on the command line

i googled this and only came across the cut command
but this looks like it only works on text files etc

onebuck · 03-26-2016, 10:09 PM

Hi,

You can use 'gpm';

Quote:

From 'man gpm';
gpm - a cut and paste utility and mouse server for virtual consoles

SYNOPSIS
gpm [ options ]

DESCRIPTION
This package tries to be a useful mouse server for applications running on the Linux console. It is based on the "selection" package, and
some of its code comes from selection itself. This package is intended as a replacement for "selection" as a cut-and-paste mechanism; it
also provides additional facilities. The "selection" package offered the first cut-and-paste implementation for Linux using two mouse but-
tons, and the cut buffer is still called "selection buffer" or just "selection" throughout this document. The information below is
extracted from the texinfo file, which is the preferred source of information.

The gpm executable is meant to act like a daemon (thus, gpmd would be a better name for it). This section is meant to describe the command-
line options for gpm, while its internals are outlined in the next section.

Due to restrictions in the ioctl(TIOCLINUX) system call, gpm must be run by the superuser. The restrictions have been added in the last 1.1
kernels to fix a security hole related to selection and screen dumping.

The server can be configured to match the user's taste, and any application using the mouse will inherit the server's attitude. From
release 1.02 up to 1.19.2 is was possible for any user logged on the system console to change the mouse feeling using the -q option. This
is no longer possible for security reasons.

As of 0.97 the server program puts itself in the background. To kill gpm you can just reinvoke it with the -k cmdline switch, although kil-
lall gpm can be a better choice.

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!