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max line length in console

Often i do cut / paste text output from one programme and paste it in a terminal window, like so:

Code:

# cat > newfile.txt

--- paste the output of another programme

...

-- end

<ctrl>+<c>

The maximum length of the line in my terminals is now about 8K. I try to copy longer lines to the terminal and they get truncated. Afaik there can be different programmes involved, like what terminal do i use (xterm, rxvt, konsole, putty, etc.), do they use terminfo or termcap, terminal settings, stty.

Where can i set the maximum line length?

I don't know how to fix the terminal problem, but you can use either xsel or xclipboard to access the x clipboard or the copy buffer from the terminal. For example:

Code:

xsel -b > textfile.txt

will pipe the the current clipboard contents into a text file.

What I tend to do, is to open vi or your favourite text editor and just paste it in.
You will then bypass the buffer size issue.