Display wrapped unix commands that can be selected with double click

Question

Not sure if this is possible at all. I have to display UNIX commands in a user manual, some of them quite long. These will not fit in a single line so they have to wrap.

To display them I tried both using the verbatim environment and the listings package (with breaklines set to true). However, when I go to the final PDF and double click the line, which is now wrapped, it does not select the entire command but only the single line in which I double clicked.

Imagine a command like the one below. Is there an environment I can use that allows me to double click the command in the final PDF document and have it select the entire command?

$ keytool -genkeypair -dname "cn=sub.example.com"
-alias sub_root -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 500
-keystore sub.ks -storepass pass -storetype jks

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Clarification: Currently, at least with the verbatim environment, the reader can click-and-hold and then drag to select the entire command; but when this is pasted into the terminal, the terminal reads it as several lines and that won't do. Alternatively, I can add \ at the end of each line (except last one) but then the user pastes the command and cannot edit it. Ideally, we'd have the command automatically wrapped and without back slashes, and double clicking in any line would select the entire command so we can paste it as a single editable line.

Answer 1

Try this. Here, I use the accsupp package that allows, when creating the PDF, different things to be placed on the paper versus in the PDF "internal" document (used for copy/paste). The nice feature is that the text placed in the internal document from an AccSupp call is a single entity to the PDF and cannot be copy/pasted in part, but only in whole. Furthermore, that internal representation of the AccSupp text does not have line breaks within it, regardless of what text is placed on the visible paper of the PDF.

It does not copy with a double click, but via click and drag. However, merely dragging over the beginning part of the \copypaste argument will copy the whole thing (it will not be broken) and will paste as a continuous line without line feeds.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{accsupp}
\newcommand\copypaste[1]{%
    \BeginAccSupp{method=escape,ActualText={\detokenize{#1}}}%
      \noindent\texttt{\detokenize{#1}}%
    \EndAccSupp{}%
}
\begin{document}
Here is some text, and now the stuff of interest:
\copypaste{$ this-is-my-long-command -with-lots-of-flags -with-lots-of-flags
-with-lots-of-flags -with-lots-of-flags -with-lots-of-flags
-with-lots-of-flags -with-lots-of-flags -with-lots-of-flags
-with-lots-of-flags -with-lots-of-flags -somearg xyz}
more text.  Now, as its own paragraph:

\copypaste{$ this-is-my-long-command -with-lots-of-flags -with-lots-of-flags
-with-lots-of-flags -with-lots-of-flags -with-lots-of-flags
-with-lots-of-flags -with-lots-of-flags -with-lots-of-flags
-with-lots-of-flags -with-lots-of-flags -somearg xyz}

More text
\end{document}