Monday 1 September 2014

How to copy text in CMD?

Most of us are aware that in CMD (Command Prompt) paste is achieved by a right click. Then what about copying something from CMD itself. It is obvious that this is not possible by a CTRL+C command as it is for terminating a process in CMD. So lets learn how to do this!


  • Open CMD just by typing cmd in search
  • Then right click at title bar as shown in figure
  • Go to properties and find edit options. 
  • Check on the Quick Edit Mode option and click OK.
  • Over!!! Now select the text you want to copy as you would do in any other text editor and right click on it. Paste it in your text editor! Simple!!
Note that you can't select text in CMD without checking on the Quick Edit Mode option!