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I am about to press enter to run a command in terminal, but before doing that, I want to copy the command to clipboard without using the mouse.

How?

If you're somewhere other than the terminal, Ctrl+Home does it.

Is there a way of arbitrarily selecting text like that in the terminal?

EDITED:

the text is to be pasted outside the terminal, so Ctrl+y and similar sequences do not solve it either

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answered 3 Years ago shadowoof · Accepted Answer

Bind following shortcut:

bind '"C-p": "C-eC-u xsel <<"EOF"

C-y

EOF

C-y"'

Now after using Crtl+P your line will be copied into clipboard. You can paste it in terminal using:

xsel

And into any X application using middle mouse button or Shift+Insert.