before we had graphical terminals with a mouse, was there just.. no way to copy and paste between different terminal programs? for example if you wanted to take something a program printed out and pass it as an argument to another program, what would you do?

was it "use some combination of redirects, pipes, $(), tab completion, !!, etc to make it work"? did people just retype things a lot? maybe `screen` helped?

feels like being able to just copy and paste makes a lot of things so much easier.