Copy terminal output - paste into text editor

[acottag]

Hello!

First, let me ask for your understanding in the maybe irrelevant question.

Is it possible using a terminal and copy part of its output / content into a text editor or another open terminal session?

Thank you in advance.

[sunrat]

Depends on the terminal. I generally use Konsole in which you can just highlight text and middle-click to paste somewhere else, or use Ctrl-Shift-C to copy.
You can also redirect terminal output to a text file eg.:

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ls /somedirectory > textfile

Which will copy to textfile in the current working directory, or you can specify a path to somewhere else.