Select text across lines in cmd.exe?

Solution 1:

There is a way to select the line of text as one single line. Before right clicking on the white highlighted area hold down the shift key, then right click the white area. This will remove the carriage returns.

Solution 2:

You can export to a text file and then do as you like. when you do your command, run it as:

[executable] >textfile.txt

This will output to the specified file anything the exe would output to the screen.

Solution 3:

use a terminal such as Console2 to run your cmd.exe (or powershell.exe) from. such terminals offer (among other things) superior selecting mechanisms.

Solution 4:

Windows' cmd application is a very very basic tool. It's not intended to be used like the power-user's do-all swiss army knife that is the Linux terminal.

So basically, no, you can't grab multiline selects as a single line. Sorry.