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How To Use Copy And Paste In Putty For Mac

Select what you want to copy: Images: In most Mac applications, you can select the picture you want to copy by clicking on it once. Image Files: Select the file on your computer that you want to copy and paste, or you can select multiple files by holding down ⌘ to select a group of files. Between Windows and PuTTY: To copy from Windows and paste into PuTTY, highlight the text in. Putty is an opensource terminal emulator that supports several network protocols like Telnet, SSH, Rlogin, SCP, and Raw Socket. The initial version of putty is dated back to January 8, 1999, and designed for Windows Operating system but now it is supporting other operating systems like macOS and Linux too.

How to install the PuTTy Secure Copy client and use it to transfer files

PuTTY is the CIT-recommended application for secure file transfer using SCP between Windows clients and Windows or Unix servers. Its secure copy utility is called PuTTy Secure Copy Protocol (PSCP).

PSCP and PuTTY are available from PuTTY.org.

Install PuTTY SCP (PSCP)

PSCP is a tool for transferring files securely between computers using an SSH connection. To use this utility, you should be comfortable working in the Windows Command Prompt.

  1. Download the PSCP utility from PuTTy.org by clicking the file name link and saving it to your computer. (If you also want to use the PuTTY shell program, you can download and save putty.exe to your computer as well.)
  2. The PuTTY SCP (PSCP) client does not require installation in Windows, but runs directly from a Command Prompt window. Move the client program file to a convenient location in your Programs folders and make a note of the location.

  3. To open a Command Prompt window, from the Start menu, click Run.

In Windows 10, open the Start menu and type cmd. Click the Command Prompt search result item that appears.
  1. A Command Prompt window will open. To be sure the utility launches correctly from any directory in the Command Prompt window, set up an environment path so your system knows where to look for it. You'll use the pscp.exe location that you made note of in Step 2. For example, if you've saved the pscp.exe file to the folder 'C:Program FilesPuTTy', set up a path by entering set PATH='%PATH%;%ProgramFiles%putty' at the prompt in the Command Prompt window.
  2. Entering the path in this way only lasts for the duration of the current session (that is, while you have the Command Prompt window open). To set up an environment variable path permanently, open the System control panel in Windows and click Advanced system settings, then click Environment Variables. In the Environment Variables window, select Path from the list of User variables, then click Edit. (If no Path variable is listed, click New.)
  3. In the Edit User Variable window, click New. Type or paste the directory path for the PSCP utility you noted in Step 2 (for example, C:/Program Files/putty) into the empty highlighted new line item.
  4. Click OK to save the new entry, then click OK again to close the Environment Variables window. The PSCP program file location is set up in your system and will not need to be entered each time you open a Command Prompt window.
Many users will not have sufficient administrative privileges to add or edit the Path environment variable permanently in their Windows System settings. In this case, contact the IT Service Desk for assistance in setting up PSCP, PuTTy, and Windows environment path variables.

Transfer files using PSCP

  1. Open the Command Prompt window, and if necessary set up your path variable as shown above in Step 4.

  2. To copy the local file c:documentsinfo.txt as user username to the server server.example.com with destination directory /tmp/foo, type at the prompt:
    pscp c:documentsinfo.txt userid@server.example.com:/tmp/foo/info.txt

  3. When prompted, enter your password for the server.

Review thecomplete documentation for PSCP and PuTTY on the PuTTY.org site.

If you are using SSH, there is a big chance that you are using PuTTY. Sometimes, PuTTY users have difficulties to copy/paste shell commands. So, we will explain how to copy/paste text.

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Secure Shell (SSH) is a network protocol that allows you to login and communicate with a remote computer system in a secured way. You can read more on the Wikipedia page.

Copy text to the clipboard
1. Click left mouse button in the terminal window
2. Keep the left mouse button down and drag the text you want to copy
3. Let go the left button. The text will be automatically copied to the clipboard.

If you are using PuTTY under Windows OS, do not try to use the CTRL-C command to copy text as it will not work. In most cases, this command will interrupt a process.

Putty How To Paste

Paste text from the clipboard
1. Here there is just one step: click the right mouse button. The text from the clipboard will be pasted into the PuTTY terminal window.

Putty Copy Without Paste

Useful PuTTY Shortcuts
Shift-Insert – will paste the clipboard content to the PuTTY terminal window
CTRL+Right mouse button and then select Paste option from the menu – will also paste the text from the clipboard
Left mouse button double-click/ double click and drag – a whole word or a sequence of whole words will be copied
Left mouse button triple-click/ triple-click and drag – PuTTY will copy a whole line or sequence of lines.

Paste Into Putty

More information about the copy/paste options can be found on Section 3.1.1 Copying and pasting text of the Help File.