Anybody know simple commands for cut and paste to and from different files? Thanks in advance.

If you run in xterm then you can do them in 'vim' just use mouse, hilight the area to be copied from one windows, switch to the other and press both mouse buttons at once, and that will copy what ever you have hilighted from other windows in.

In the command line prompt, you have to run gpm (it enables the mouse), then you select text and go to the place you want to past it to (in shell or vi insert mode) abd right-click. It pastes the text. In the X, you select text in one window, go to where you want to paste it and click the middle button.

There are probably better ways that were suggested previously... Could you be a bit more detailed about what you are trying to do? either way here is the most basic of basic ways.... cat filename_to_cut_from >> filename_to_append_to There are much much more advanced ways of automating this kind of stuff but you didn't give enough information..... laterz..