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Olivia
Olivia

Reputation: 11

Using SSH server and vi editor inside SSH, how do i copy lines of code and paste into notepad

So I have to use SSH for my computational physics course, and with that we have to use VI editor. I'm coding in fortran 77 because that's the only language I have been taught through this course, but my professor has focused mainly on the physics portion and very little on the coding.

The code that I have written stores 400,001 lines of data into a data.dat file. I need to copy those 400,001 lines of data into an excel file so that I can make a graph.

The problem I am having is when highlighting the text manually, selecting the select all option, or the select screen option, I am only able to select about 200 lines of code and they usually repeat themselves.

I've seen several shortcuts but I can't get them to work. I used :%y* and :%y+ and all it says is E488 trailing character.

I have also tried gg"*yG and gg"+yG and all it says is 400,001 lines yanked but then I cannot paste them into my excel file.

I have run myself ragged working on this code for over a month and I am now so close to turning it in but i really need that data and I really need that graph.

Please help me figure this out, I am literally driving myself insane trying to do this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 654

Answers (1)

user2692263
user2692263

Reputation: 535

You ask the wrong question. Ask instead - transfer file through ssh - and You will get many possibillities Here is just one

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/TransferFiles

If you are on a windows machine - just install winscp: https://winscp.net/eng/download.php

Upvotes: 2

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