[ale] HOW2 copy text from an Xwindow that is longer than a screenfull ?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:19 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> I need to be able to copy a program's xterm screen output to another
> program. That output is a lot longer than one screen full.
> 
> I am using a vt100 terminal emulation xterm which permits selecting and
> copying such output but said output is many screenfulls.
> 
> For reasons I am neglecting, I need to not simply redirect this output
> to a file and send the file.
> 
> I need to be able to redirect the output to a file, cat the file, and
> THEN select&copy the cat-ed file's output...to another program screen.
> 
> Anyone know how to accomplish this ?

use an editor like vi or emacs on the first file to strip out the
unwanted lines then cat the resulting file into the second program.

program1 > file1; vi file1; cat file1| program2
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Courtney
> 
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