how to wrap a long terminal command without real line breaking?

Question

this may look like a duplicate question to this one and many, but really I had a hardtime in finding the desired solution.

The breaklines=true didn't work as it breaks the long command. Hence simple copy and paste doesn't work, because when the code is pasted in terminal it gets split over many lines with preceding angle brackets > .

Answer 1

Use accsupp package. This way you can copy regarless of visual line breaks.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{accsupp}
\usepackage{listings}
\begin{document}
\BeginAccSupp{method=plain,ActualText=long long long command long long long command long long long command long long long command}
\begin{lstlisting}[breaklines=true]
long long long command long long long command long long long command long long long command
\end{lstlisting}
\EndAccSupp{}
\end{document}

If the code includes special characters you need something more fancy (method=pdfstringdef and hyperref):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[pdfencoding=auto]{hyperref}
\usepackage{accsupp}
\usepackage{listings}
\begin{document}
\BeginAccSupp{method=pdfstringdef,ActualText=
grep -rw --include \unichar{"005C}*.h --include \unichar{"005C}*e.c* "Write()" . |sed -e 's/Write/Read/g'}
\begin{lstlisting}[breaklines=true]
grep -rw --include \*.h --include \*e.c* "Write()" . |sed -e 's/Write/Read/g'
\end{lstlisting}
\EndAccSupp{}
\end{document}