Re: Command-line copy-paste?

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Yang Zhang wrote:

> Is there any way to pipe some content into screen's copy-paste buffer? Thanks!

Yes, you can use the "bufferfile" command to set it to an arbitrary 
textfile, and "readbuf" to effectively do a "copy".

You may also find useful: I have some switches with a crappy CLI that if 
you paste too much info too fast, it drops, so I typed the following 
commands into screen to make it work:

bufferfile /home/danm/summit48.cfg
slowpaste 120
readbuf
paste .

I could have also just put these in a file and used screen's "source" 
command to run them all.

HTH,

-Dan

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