 This is a quick tech tip, and what I'm going to show you today is a certain way of selecting text inside your Linux shell. So here I am, I'm going to type in psaux, now let me list of running processes. Now let's say I want to select all these process IDs here. Now you can see I can try to select, but I'm grabbing a lot of information I don't want. I just want the numbers in this column here. So how do I select that? Well in most terminals I can click control alt, and then click select, and I can box select an area. So now I have selected and copied those numbers without selecting everything else on those lines. Now this will work in some shell emulators, not others. So that was Terminator, which I normally use. Here you can see in console, I can control alt and select that column. And this is in XFCE, their terminal. I can do the same, but down here I have XTerm, which is a very lightweight terminal emulator. I'm going to type in psaux, and if I hit control alt, I cannot select that. I can still select lines to copy and paste, but the control alt. Now I'm assuming there probably is a functionality in here somewhere that will allow me to select box select area, but I don't know what it is for XTerm, but many of the consoles you will use out there will allow you to control alt and select a box area. So that's it. I thank you for watching. Please visit my website, filmsbychris.com, that's Chris of the K, there should be a link in the description. If you enjoyed this video, think of becoming a supporter over at patreon.com forward slash mail x1000. If you can't become a financial supporter, think about liking, sharing, subscribing and commenting. Those help me out greatly. I thank you for watching, and as always I hope that you have a great day.