Copy all the lines to clipboard

Question

Is there any way to copy all lines from open file to clipboard in VI editor. I tried yG but it's not using clipboard to store those lines.

So is it possible?

Answer 1

(in reply to @rshdev, and to avoid having to recompile vim with +xterm_clipboard per @nelstrom in comments on OP)

there's a program called xclip that works like putclip on Ubuntu 11:

:%!xclip -sel clip
u

it's not installed by default. to install, use:

sudo apt-get install xclip

Answer 2

I tried a few of the commands that people have mentioned above. None worked. Then I got hold of the simplest of them all.

Step 1: vi <filename>
Step 2: Right click on the title bar of the Putty window
Step 3: Select "Clear scrollback" (to avoid copying the rest of your SSH session)
Step 4: Right click again and select "Copy all to clipboard".

Answer 3

You can use "cat" command to open file and use mouse to copy

Answer 4

Do copy the whole file inside the vim or its tabs

y G 

then move to a tab and paste by

p

and to cut the whole file use

d G