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Are they individual lines, or one long line in the file?<br />
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If you do &quot;wc -l &lt;&nbsp;filename&quot; do you get a line number count?<br />
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If so, you could use vi to position to the line you want, then yank it to another file.
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Are they individual lines, or one long line in the file?

If you do "wc -l < filename" do you get a line number count?

If so, you could use vi to position to the line you want, then yank it to another file.

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hi thanks<br />
&gt;&gt;wc -l &lt;&nbsp;filename<br />
i get 500 which is the number of lines i have in my file.<br />
i am trying to copy-paste like this<br />
i open the file <br />
$vi filename<br />
i place the cursor on the first letter of the line which i want to copy<br />
i then type &nbsp; &nbsp;yyp<br />
to copy it and go to word doc and paste it but doesnt seem to paste it.<br />
<br />
am i doing it correctly?<br />
thanks
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hi thanks
>>wc -l < filename
i get 500 which is the number of lines i have in my file.
i am trying to copy-paste like this
i open the file
$vi filename
i place the cursor on the first letter of the line which i want to copy
i then type    yyp
to copy it and go to word doc and paste it but doesnt seem to paste it.

am i doing it correctly?
thanks

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Dear experts<br />
I have a Log file and it has close to 5000 lines <br />
The lines are really long and using the mouse is not an option.<br />
I would like to &nbsp;copy a line and paste it in windows notepad.<br />
Any idea how I can do that?<br />
<br />
Thanks.
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Dear experts
I have a Log file and it has close to 5000 lines 
The lines are really long and using the mouse is not an option.
I would like to  copy a line and paste it in windows notepad.
Any idea how I can do that?

Thanks.

Unix copy paste long lines

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.