On 8/25/18, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: > Greetings, 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 > > Do you expect us to answer "d2u < /dev/clipboard | wherever" ? > Or can you stop being lazy and start producing such simple answers > yourself?
It's not laziness, it's hoping for the magical incantation that will speed up the right click/paste operation. But nobody has referenced my >> Oh well... I was hoping I'd set up something wrong in cygwin so let's close out the thread; at least on my machine, there's a clear winner for pasting in an absurdly large amount of text: $ time d2u < /dev/clipboard > hosts-3.txt real 0m11.372s user 0m3.749s sys 0m6.984s $ time cat /dev/clipboard | tr -d '\r' > hosts-2.txt real 0m4.405s user 0m0.124s sys 0m3.577s $ time getclip -u > hosts.txt real 0m0.734s user 0m0.031s sys 0m0.031s My thanks to everyone who gave me alternatives to simple pasting. And a special thanks to all the devs that have made things so much better that I completely forgot about pasting text being slow. In an off-list conversation I mentioned that I used to limit pasting to no more than 5-10K lines. But that was back in WinXP days; since then there's been cygwin-64, mintty, and I don't know what all else that are so much better now. Thank you!! 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
