On 8/25/18, Frank Redeker wrote: > 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, >> Lee > >Hi Lee, > > what about 'cp /dev/clipbord /tmp/hosts'?
Much better! That takes about the same time as pasting into notepad, so I'm guessing that's about as fast as I can expect. but I need to convert line endings: $ file hosts.txt hosts.txt: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators Thanks Lee -- 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
