How to copy and paste on a virtual console (one of the fullscreen black terminals, e.g., tty2)

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Issue

  • When working physically on systems that don't have a GUI installed, you can't copy and paste. Is there a way?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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