Copy Paste in Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

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How to execute a copy paste operation from Windows 10 to the Bash on Ubuntu on Windows environment   I tried the following    ctrl   shift   v right click to paste   Any suggestions

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You can use AutoHotkey  third party application   the command below is good with plain alphanumeric text  however some other characters like        are mistyped in console like bash or cmd   In any non-console window this command works fine with all characters      v  SendRaw  clipboard

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you might have bash but it is still a windows window manager  Highlite some text in the bash terminal window  Right click on the title bar  select  Edit   select  Copy   Now Right Click again on the Title bar  select  Edit    Select  Paste   Done  You should be able to Highlite text  hit  Enter  then Control V but this seems to be broken

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For pasting into Vim in the terminal  bash on ubuntu on windows    export DISPLAY localhost 0 0  Not sure how to copy from Vim though  -

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At long last  we re excited to announce that we FINALLY implemented copy and paste support for Linux WSL instances in Windows Console via CTRL   SHIFT    C V    You can enable disable this feature in case you find a keyboard collision with a command-line app  but this should start working when you install and run any Win10 builds    17643     Thanks for your patience while we re-engineered Console s internals to allow this feature to work

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Update 2019 04 16  It seems copy paste is now officially supported in Windows build  gt   17643  Take a look at Rich Turner s answer  This can be enabled through the same settings menu described below by clicking the checkbox next to  quot Use Ctrl Shift C V as Copy Paste quot    Another solution would be to enable  quot QuickEdit Mode quot  and then you can paste by right-clicking in the terminal  To enable QuickEdit Mode  right-click on the toolbar  or simply click on the icon in the upper left corner   select Properties  and in the Options tab  click the checkbox next to QuickEdit Mode  With this mode enabled  you can also copy text in the terminal by clicking and dragging  Once a selection is made  you can press Enter or right-click to copy

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Alternate solution over here  my windows home version Windows Subsystem Linux terminal doesn t have the property to use Shift Ctrl  C V   Use an actual linux terminal 1   Install an X-server in Windows  like X-Ming  sudo apt install  lt your favorite terminal gt  export DISPLAY  0 fire your terminal app  I tested with xfce4-terminal and gnome-terminal   windows  ubuntu  development

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That turned out to be pretty simple  I ve got it occasionally  To paste a text you simply need to right mouse button click anywhere in terminal window

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Edit   Paste from the title bar s context menu  until they fix the control key shortcuts

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Like it has been written before    Right Click on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows Icon if you have it on a Task Bar Shortcut Icon Click on Properties Select Options Tab on the Properties Window Check the QuickEditMode option Click Apply    Now you are able to open a new Bash Terminal and just use Right-Click to paste   In order to be able to copy from Terminal  Just use CTRL M and this will enable you to select and copy selected Text

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For just copying  possibly long  texts to the Windows clipboard  I have found that just piping the output to clip exe  including the  exe file extension  works fine for me  So     echo  Hello World    clip exe   lets me paste Hello World using Ctrl-V anywhere else   Now that I have posted this  I notice that related question Pipe from clipboard in linux subsytem for windows includes this and a command solution for pasting from the Windows clipboard as well

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Ok  it s developed finally and now you are able to use Ctrl Shift C V to Copy Paste as of Windows 10 Insider build  17643    You ll need to enable the  Use Ctrl Shift C V as Copy Paste  option in the Console  Options  properties page     referenced in blogs msdn microsoft com

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As others have said  there is now an option for Ctrl Shf Vfor paste in Windows 10 Insider build  17643   Unfortunately this isn t in my muscle memory and as a user of TTY terminals I d like to use Shf Ins as I do on all the Linux boxes I connect to   This is possible on Windows 10 if you install ConEmu which wraps the terminal in a new GUI and allows Shf Ins for paste   It also allows you to tweak the behaviour in the Properties   The Console looks like this   Copy options   Paste options   Shf Ins works out of the box   I can t remember if you need to configure bash as one of the shells it uses but if you do  here is the task properties to add it   Also allows tabbed Consoles  including different types  cmd exe  powershell etc    I ve been using this since early Windows 7 and in those days it made the command line on Windows usable

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To get right-click to paste to work    Right-click on the title bar   Properties Options tab   Edit options   enable QuickEdit Mode

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