Putty Question - How To copy only PART of the log

Hi guys, I have only seen the "copy all to clipboard" option. How do I copy only my highlighted text from putty to notepad?

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lsud00d

If you hold down left click (to highlight) it should copy it to the clipboard, then just ctrl+v to notepad.

Priston

hitmen wrote: »

How do I copy only my highlighted text from putty to notepad?

Your highlighted text is already copied. All you need to do is highlight text, the copy part is automatic.

Zartanasaurus

While we're on the subject, holding down the alt button while highlighting text is nice for grabbing a custom sized box of text while ignoring other text on the same lines. Very nice feature if you're trying to grab a couple of commands you typed in without getting the other junk on the lines.

wes allen

Look at using a better program, like teraterm. I just set it to log to file, run what I need to, close the file, and good to go. Great for dumping configs or port info to a file.

Priston

Some people prefer putty.

rupp17

One can also set up options to save the whole session within putty. I have mine to save by host-time-date.log
I don't care for all the junk characters made when correcting but these are easy enough to clear out with replace all function in any text editor.

RouteMyPacket

wes allen wrote: »

Look at using a better program, like teraterm. I just set it to log to file, run what I need to, close the file, and good to go. Great for dumping configs or port info to a file.

This, only noobs use Putty...seriously do not use it..too many bad things can happen. I cannot stand the automatic copy when highlighted function. Let's just say that there is a reason I ctrl+z or use "end" if I am in a config mode and am doing something else before configuring. Too smart/paranoid to have something pasted into the terminal that I don't want.

Zoc, SecureCRT, Teraterm are much better. Tabs is also a huge thing for me, can't live without them (yes I know SuperPutty has them, but it's still Putty).