Copy text from the integrated Web terminal

[tushar_bansal]

How do I copy text from the integrated web terminal? The selection goes away as soon as I lift my finger from the mouse.

[szymon_dybczak]

Hi @tushar_bansal ,

Maybe this is something related to your browser/mouse setup? I've tested it on my environment and it works as expected. Selection does not goes way and I can copy text without issue:

[tushar_bansal]

Thanks @szymon_dybczak, but I don't think I am doing anything special with my browser/mouse setup. I tried using my MacBook's trackpad and the same behaviour there.
Are you using Azure? We are on AWS, could it be related to that?

[szymon_dybczak]

Yes @tushar_bansal , you're correct. I'm on Azure. Maybe you're right and this is issue specific to AWS? Maybe someone else will join to discussion with access to AWS instance and check this

[StephenBoesch]

I am on GCP and confirm this broken behavior.   chrome / macos 15.7

[StephenBoesch]

This does not work for me.  MacOS 15.7 on chrome .

[tushar_bansal]

@StephenBoesch I have posted a solution. That should work for you, too. https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/copy-text-from-the-integrated-web-terminal/m-p/...

[ManojkMohan]

@tushar_bansal you can try running a command run a command  echo "your-text" > file.txt and then open/copy from the editor . it worked for me 

[tushar_bansal]

@ManojkMohan, yes, that will work, but it is not ideal. I would like it to work directly from there.

[szymon_dybczak]

You were right @tushar_bansal . I've logged in to Free Edition which is on AWS and I encountered the same issue as you. Whenever I select a text it disappear. Also there is an option to copy line (when you click right button of the mouse) but it also doesn't work:

@Advika , could you somehow notify product team about this bug? 

[tushar_bansal]

Thanks a lot @szymon_dybczak !!

[StephenBoesch]

That is a pretty awkward/difficult solution when copy/paste is such a frequently used tool.   e.g there is a warning/error message.  I'd have to re-run the entire command (piping to output file) to get the text again.  Also that does not necessarily reproduce the results in the same way.

[TheOC]

Hi  @tushar_bansal 
Are you running on MacOS or Windows?
If you're on Windows (I'm sure Mac will have an equivalent), I appreciate its not an ideal workaround, but one option may be to use the snipping tool. This allows you to take a screenshot and grab the text from it:

I think in the meantime this is likely best reported as a bug and fixed, but hopefully this helps you get the info you need while that is being fixed.

[tushar_bansal]

Yes @TheOC, this is what I do as a workaround. In macOS I can directly copy from the screenshot.

[szymon_dybczak]

Don't worry, we will submit ticket - we shouldn't use any workarounds here. It should work in the same way as in Azure terminal