Copy Text From the Command Prompt

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Copy Text From the Command Prompt

As you may or may not know, copying from the Command Prompt is not as easy as copying from other programs, which is part of the reason why saving a command's output to a file, which you learned about a few tricks back, is so handy.

However, what if you do just want to copy a short section of text to the clipboard? It's not too hard but it's not very intuitive either:

1. Right-click anywhere in the Command Prompt window and choose Mark.
2. Now, highlight with your left mouse button whatever you'd like to copy.
3. Once your selection is made, press Enter.

Now you can paste that information into whatever program you'd like, just like you paste other text.

Tip: If you chose Mark but then decided you don't want to copy anything, you can right-click again to cancel the Mark action, or hit the Esc key.