I was viewing a **man** page for a software on my machine and I needed to copy-paste some of that text but the text was much more than one page. I'm aware I can direct the output to a file and use UI based software such as **gedit** to copy the text I need. But can this be done from the terminal ?

**Joseph** suggested a command line method (Little bit complicated to me, I'm not yet good with regular expressions on Linux). But I'm wondering if there is a way to do so while I'm still on the terminal, **using the mouse**.

I hope I get a generic answer, however, I'm using Ubuntu.