title: How do I copy text from my xterm without a mouse?
body: <p>I want to use part of the output of a command run from the command line in another xterm, or as part of a different command.  For instance:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; grep error error.log
  error: can't find file ~/&lt;some very long path&gt;/thisfile
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I want to do this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;ls ~/&lt;some very long path&gt;/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know two ways to do this:<br>
  1. copy <code>~/&lt;some very long path&gt;/</code> with the mouse.<br>
  2. use some combination of <code>head</code>/<code>tail</code>/<code>awk</code>/<code>sed</code>/<code>perl</code>/<code>cut</code>/etc... to extract only what I need from the output and then use <em>that</em> inside backticks.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to copy text without using the mouse?  The example that comes to mind is visual mode inside VIM, but I don't know how to do that inside the xterm.</p>