Copy a file's line and place in command line

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I'm interested to know if there is any way to copy a line from a file and place it in the next terminal's command line.

This line would be the next command or a fraction of it, being possible to still edit in the command line.

And, of course, everything throught the terminal.

Regards, Vinicius SIlva

This question is unclear to me. Do you want something like that echo echo hi > file; var="$(tail -n1 file)"; echo $var? — Arkadiusz Drabczyk, Jan 18 '21 at 22:56
welcome, could you give an example of what you want to accomplish? — schrodingerscatcuriosity, Jan 18 '21 at 22:57
Sounds a bit like https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/213799/117549 — Jeff Schaller, Jan 24 '21 at 16:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 18 '21 at 23:27

Usually just highlighting the line with the mouse (left click) will automatically copy it to the clipboard. Then switch over to the other terminal and paste it with either the right or center(scrollwheel) mouse button.

Depending on the console you may need to use keyboard shortcuts instead. Highlight with the mouse and then try CTRL-SHIFT-C to copy and CTRL-SHIFT-V to paste.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 19 '21 at 02:44

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As far as I know this is not possible - there are no shell commands which emulate the kill-line and similar "commands" which cut and paste on the command line. Related question about clearing the kill buffer.

answered Jan 19 '21 at 02:44

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Copy a file's line and place in command line

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