How do I copy/paste log output from an SSH session

I take it you're using SSH through a terminal? You can just select the text, right click and choose Copy. Ctrl + C won't work.

Or in a terminal cu copy the output the keys combination is Ctrl + Shift + V and to paste in a terminal text the keys combination is Ctrl + Shift + C.

Actually, neither of those suggestions work.

To be more clear, I'm using PuTTY to connect to the server. If I highlight some text and right click, the end of the highlighted section moves to wherever the mouse was when I right-clicked.

CTRL-Insert (my preferred method though it's probably the same as Ctrl-C) does not put anything on the clipboard.

Actually, neither of those suggestions work.

To be more clear, I'm using PuTTY to connect to the server. If I highlight some text and right click, the end of the highlighted section moves to wherever the mouse was when I right-clicked.

CTRL-Insert (my preferred method though it's probably the same as Ctrl-C) does not put anything on the clipboard.

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.52/htmldoc/Chapter3.html#3.1.1

it seems that you have to use the left mouse button to highlight the text. It will be automatically copied to Clipboard when you release the button.

Nope. That's not working either. On the hunch that maybe you meant the right mouse button, I tried that too and still no joy. There's no response at all to the middle mouse button.

Thanks for the reference to the Putty manual, but I think it's intended for Windows. Aside from making specific references to the Windows clipboard, some of the Putty behaviors are different. They describe, for example, highlighting a rectangular section of text by holding down the Alt key while dragging the mouse. On my system this drags the Putty window which I believe is the default behavour for the ALT key in Xorg.

I suppose there are three posiblities:

- either Putty just can't do this - which I doubut
- or I just need to learn the technique specific to Linux
- or my system is misconfigured somehow such that the default behaviors are no longer working and I need to reset them.

Is your mouse emulated for 3 buttons? Also I found this on ubuntuforums.org maybe it helps :):

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=107159

Good luck.

Thanks for the link. I had seen that thread when I was initially researching this problem. It was never resolved for that user either.

For what it's worth, I can use the mouse to highlight and copy or paste in windows on my local machine so I've not had any reason to suspect a problem with the mouse.

Are there any other decent SSH clients other than PuTTY?

Thanks Cristi Nistor, that solved my question.