Am 25.08.2018 um 02:10 schrieb Lee: > On 8/24/18, James Darnley wrote: >> On 2018-08-25 01:30, Lee wrote: >>> In retrospect, I should have created the file some other way, but still.. >>> - grab the top 1M hosts from from >>> http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/index.html >>> - open w/ libreoffice >>> - select the host name column, right click & select copy (all 1 million >>> lines) >>> - (mintty 2.9.0 window already open) vi /tmp/hosts >>> - i (get into insert mode) >>> - right click (which I have set to "paste") >>> >>> data is still scrolling by & it's not even up to 100K lines yet :( >>> >>> Is there some way to make a paste operation faster in mintty (or vim >>> or whatever the slowpoke is)? >> >> There's a utility called getclip which put the clipboard onto stdout. >> Direct that into a file and you should get the same result, excluding >> Vim's indentation. Probably doesn't use the tty in anyway. > > Is getclip different from > cat > /tmp/hosts > <right-click to paste in the 1M lines> > > at least 'cat > /tmp/hosts' that goes faster than I can read. But > while that's running I can open notepad, paste the 1M lines in there, > save to \cygwin\tmp\doshosts, open another mintty window & dos2unix > /tmp/doshosts -- all that before the <right-click paste> finishes :( > > Thanks, > LeeHi Lee,
what about 'cp /dev/clipbord /tmp/hosts'? Frank -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
