{"id":8343,"date":"2014-09-20T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T14:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=8343"},"modified":"2014-09-20T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T14:08:20","slug":"how-to-copy-text-from-a-dos-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-copy-text-from-a-dos-window\/","title":{"rendered":"How to copy text from a DOS window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re going to show you how to copy text from a DOS window. You know those (usually) black dialog windows you see when you press the Windows Key plus the &#8220;R&#8221; key, type CMD and press Enter.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us who have used the command prompt have wanted to copy the information from it and paste it in a text file or an email &#8211; or in our case &#8211; a Web page. Why? Well that&#8217;s a good question &#8211; so we&#8217;ll give you an example:<\/p>\n<p>Press the Windows Key, plus the &#8220;R&#8221; key and type CMD into the command line and press Enter. At the prompt, type IPCONFIG \/All .<\/p>\n<p>If you followed the instructions above correctly, you now have a box showing you a lot of information about your Internet connection, your IP address, and other arcane stuff. So how do you copy all that information so you can paste it into a text file, a document or an email? You can&#8217;t use Ctrl+A to copy it all and you can&#8217;t highlight and use Ctrl+C. Try it.<\/p>\n<p>But you can copy it &#8211; and paste it into a test file, document or an email.<\/p>\n<p>See?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><i>Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]<br \/>\nCopyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>C:\\Users\\Thundercloud&gt;ipconfig \/all<\/p>\n<p>Windows IP Configuration<\/p>\n<p>Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : POE<br \/>\nPrimary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :<br \/>\nNode Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid<br \/>\nIP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No<br \/>\nWINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No<\/p>\n<p>Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:<\/p>\n<p>Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected<br \/>\nConnection-specific DNS Suffix . :<br \/>\nDescription . . . . . . . . . . . : XCETAP0 Adapter<br \/>\nPhysical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-FF-30-A0-19-15<br \/>\nDHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No<br \/>\nAutoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes<\/p>\n<p>Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:<\/p>\n<p>Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :<br \/>\nDescription . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN<br \/>\nPhysical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-24-D6-09-CC-30<br \/>\nDHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes<br \/>\nAutoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes<br \/>\nLink-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::391d:75c0:aab8:47af%12(Preferred)<br \/>\nIPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.167.1.15(Preferred)<br \/>\nSubnet Mask . . . . . .<\/p>\n<p>(The rest of the content removed for brevity.)<br \/>\n<\/i><\/span><br \/>\nIf you only want to copy part of the information, you can do that too:<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Windows IP Configuration<\/p>\n<p>Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : POE<br \/>\nPrimary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :<br \/>\nNode Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid<br \/>\nIP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No<br \/>\nWINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the trick? Here&#8217;s how you do it &#8211; the easy way:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2011\/command-copy.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Premium\" width=\"620\" height=\"520\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Right-click on the title bar. If you want to copy everything inside the DOS window, choose &#8220;Edit&#8221; then &#8220;Select All&#8221;. Everything inside the DOS window will be selected. But wait! You can&#8217;t right-click in the windows and choose &#8220;Copy&#8221;. As soon as you click (right or left-click) inside that Window, nothing will be highlighted and you&#8217;ll have to start over. So, when everything is highlighted, right-click again on the title bar and choose &#8220;Copy&#8221; (copy will not be grayed-out if you have selected text in the box). Once you&#8217;ve clicked &#8220;Copy&#8221; all of the text which was highlighted will be copied to the Windows clipboard; you can then paste it wherever you want.<\/p>\n<p>If you only want to select some of the information in the box, right-click on the title bar and choose &#8220;Mark&#8221;. Return to the DOS window and you&#8217;ll see a large square cursor. You can drag it over the text you want to copy to select it. Once the text is selected, right-click on the title bar again and choose &#8220;Copy&#8221;. The selected text will be copied and you can paste it in to a text file, document, email or Web page using Ctrl-V.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2011\/command-copy2.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Premium\" width=\"704\" height=\"329\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of Windows commands you can run to get more information about your computer, and sometimes you&#8217;ll want to copy it and paste the information somewhere so you can save it. And guess what? Now you know how. Ain&#8217;t it great?<\/p>\n<p>This tip works in all versions of Windows from Windows XP through Windows 8x.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re going to show you how to copy text from a DOS window. You know those (usually) black dialog windows you see when you press the Windows Key plus the &#8220;R&#8221; key, type CMD and press Enter. 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