I've used the open source telnet/ssh client Putty for many years to manage remote machines. Recently I was using a blog post to setup a virtual machine to be used as a web server. The instructions were complete, but the commands were long and difficult to retype. I wanted to copy and paste but I couldn't use the Ctrl-V to paste in Putty because the key sequence is just sent to the connected computer. It turns out copy and paste is extremely easy in Putty, but you need to read the help file. Copy and Paste works with the mouse. Select any text with the left mouse button and it is immediately copied in the Windows clipboard. Right-Click to paste the contents of the clipboard into Putty. Here are a few bonus tips: [more]
Shift-Insert will also Paste into the Putty window.
Launch PuTTY on the computer Click the plus sign to the left of 'SSH' under the 'Connection' header at the left side of the PuTTY window Click 'Auth' under 'SSH'. It is the same as invoking the Edit Paste Selection command, which has the keyboard shortcut Shift-Command-V. As of OS X 10.8, selecting text in a terminal copies the text to a pasteboard and Paste Selection pastes the contents of this pasteboard (akin to X11’s PRIMARY). It now behaves very much like xterm under X11.
How To Paste Into Putty
Shift-Right-Click will bring up a context menu in the Putty window. The top menu item is Paste.
Copying and pasting files on Mac is also very similar to copying and pasting text. Step 1: Select the file or files you’d like to copy. To select a single file, simply click once on it. It is why Control- C for copy or Control-V for paste will not work in Putty because of this. TO summarize: To copy: select any string inside Putty with your mouse (don’t press right click yet!, simply select or highlight the string with your mouse) To paste: right click on the location you want to paste the string.
How To Use Copy And Paste In Putty For Mac Osx
Double-Click will select the whole word below the mouse cursor and copy it to the clipboard.
Putty How To Paste
Triple-Click will select the whole line below the mouse cursor and copy it to the clipboard.