Copy Paste in Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

Question

How to execute a copy paste operation from Windows 10 to the Bash on Ubuntu on Windows environment?

I tried the following:

• ctrl + shift

Answer 1

As others have said, there is now an option for Ctrl+Shf+Vfor paste in Windows 10 Insider build #17643.

Unfortunately this isn't in my muscle memory and as a user of TTY terminals I'd like to use Shf+Ins as I do on all the Linux boxes I connect to.

This is possible on Windows 10 if you install ConEmu which wraps the terminal in a new GUI and allows Shf+Ins for paste. It also allows you to tweak the behaviour in the Properties.

The Console looks like this:

Copy options:

Paste options:

Shf+Ins works out of the box. I can't remember if you need to configure bash as one of the shells it uses but if you do, here is the task properties to add it:

Also allows tabbed Consoles (including different types, cmd.exe, powershell etc). I've been using this since early Windows 7 and in those days it made the command line on Windows usable!

Answer 2

At long last, we're excited to announce that we FINALLY implemented copy and paste support for Linux/WSL instances in Windows Console via CTRL + SHIFT + [C|V]!

You can enable/disable this feature in case you find a keyboard collision with a command-line app, but this should start working when you install and run any Win10 builds >= 17643.

Thanks for your patience while we re-engineered Console's internals to allow this feature to work :)

Answer 3

To get right-click to paste to work:

• Right-click on the title bar > Properties
• Options tab > Edit options > enable QuickEdit Mode

Answer 4

For pasting into Vim in the terminal (bash on ubuntu on windows):

export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

Not sure how to copy from Vim though :-(

Answer 5

For just copying (possibly long) texts to the Windows clipboard, I have found that just piping the output to clip.exe (including the .exe file extension) works fine for me. So:

$ echo "Hello World" | clip.exe

lets me paste Hello World using Ctrl-V anywhere else.

Now that I have posted this, I notice that related question Pipe from clipboard in linux subsytem for windows includes this and a command solution for pasting from the Windows clipboard as well.

Answer 6

Alternate solution over here, my windows home version Windows Subsystem Linux terminal doesn't have the property to use Shift+Ctrl (C|V)

Use an actual linux terminal]1

• Install an X-server in Windows (like X-Ming)
• sudo apt install <your_favorite_terminal>
• export DISPLAY=:0
• fire your terminal app, I tested with xfce4-terminal and gnome-terminal

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