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LESSON 5.6How to Paste Text in Linux Terminal Safely
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  • MODULE 1
    Introduction
    • LESSON 1.1About this book
    • LESSON 1.2Community and Code Downloads
    • LESSON 1.3Organization of this book
    • LESSON 1.4Conventions used in this book
    • LESSON 1.5Development environment
    • LESSON 1.6Acknowledgements
    • LESSON 1.7About the author
  • MODULE 2
    Self–Help
    • LESSON 2.1Find Bash Keyword, Function, and Builtin Command Documentation
    • LESSON 2.2How to Use man bash and help to Learn About Bash Commands
    • LESSON 2.3How to Find Information About Bash File Commands With --help
    • LESSON 2.4The Best References for Bash Commands
    • LESSON 2.5How to Find Package Specific Bash Documentation
    • LESSON 2.6How to Read a Synopsis and Understand Bash Documentation
    • LESSON 2.7How to Use apropos to Find Bash Commands (with examples)
  • MODULE 3
    Running Scripts
    • LESSON 3.1How to Run a Bash Script Explicitly as an Argument in Terminal
    • LESSON 3.2How to Run a Bash Script With a Shebang Line and the Script Path
    • LESSON 3.3The Simplest Way to Run a Bash Script with $PATH
  • MODULE 4
    Editing Commands and Scripts
    • LESSON 4.1How to Use Bash Readline to Edit Commands and Scripts
    • LESSON 4.2How to Edit Bash Scripts in Nano and Vim
  • MODULE 5
    Copying and Pasting
    • LESSON 5.1Copying and Pasting
    • LESSON 5.2How to Select Text in Linux Terminal With a Mouse
    • LESSON 5.3How to Copy and Paste in Linux Terminal With Keyboard Shortcuts
    • LESSON 5.4How to Copy and Paste Text With the xclip Bash Command
    • LESSON 5.5How to Copy Formatted Text as HTML From Linux Terminal
    • LESSON 5.6How to Paste Text in Linux Terminal Safely
  • MODULE 6
    Listing Files
    • LESSON 6.1Listing Files
    • LESSON 6.2Using Linux ls Command to List Files and grep to Search for Files
    • LESSON 6.3How to Glob, Find Pattern Matching Files, and Run Commands
  • MODULE 7
    Text
    • LESSON 7.1Text
    • LESSON 7.2How to Convert Windows Newlines For Bash With dos2unix
    • LESSON 7.3How to Convert Text to UTF-8 And Other Encodings in Bash Scripts
  • MODULE 8
    Math
    • LESSON 8.1Math
    • LESSON 8.2How to Perform Arithmetic Expansion in Bash
    • LESSON 8.3How to Evaluate and Calculate Arithmetic Expressions in Bash
    • LESSON 8.4Best Practices for Using Variables in Bash Arithmetic
    • LESSON 8.5How to Write Conditional Expressions in Bash
    • LESSON 8.6Convert Bases in Bash to Work With Octals and Hexadecimals
    • LESSON 8.7How to Perform Floating Point Math With Bash bc
  • MODULE 9
    Time
    • LESSON 9.1Time
    • LESSON 9.2Format Datetimes, Timestamps, and Time Zones in Bash
    • LESSON 9.3How to Time How Long a Bash Command Takes to Run
    • LESSON 9.4How to Kill Bash Commands With timeout
  • MODULE 10
    Output
    • LESSON 10.1Output
    • LESSON 10.2How to Use the Bash Echo Command to Print Text in Terminal
    • LESSON 10.3printf vs echo - Printing Formatted Text With Newlines in Bash
    • LESSON 10.4Using the logger Command to Log Bash Output
  • MODULE 11
    JSON
    • LESSON 11.1JSON
    • LESSON 11.2How to Use jq Command to Filter JSON in Bash
    • LESSON 11.3Creating
  • MODULE 12
    XML
    • LESSON 12.1XML
    • LESSON 12.2Extracting an XML Value in Bash With xml_grep
    • LESSON 12.3Formatting and Transforming XML with XSLT
    • LESSON 12.4How to Create XML Files in Bash With xsltproc
    • LESSON 12.5Auto-Formatting
  • MODULE 13
    Images
    • LESSON 13.1Images
    • LESSON 13.2How to Take Screenshots in Ubuntu Linux With Shortcuts and Bash
    • LESSON 13.3Resize, Convert, and Crop Pictures With ImageMagick mogrify
    • LESSON 13.4How to Create a Video From Images With ffmpeg
    • LESSON 13.5How to Create Graphs From Terminal With Graphviz
    • LESSON 13.6How to Remove and Edit Metadata From Photos With exif
  • MODULE 14
    Archiving and Compression
    • LESSON 14.1Archiving and Compression
    • LESSON 14.2Beginner's Guide to tar Commands to Compress and Extract Files
    • LESSON 14.3Plain gzip
    • LESSON 14.4Zip
    • LESSON 14.5Other formats
  • MODULE 15
    SSH
    • LESSON 15.1SSH