Text Formatting ⇒ Preserve space and line break formatting on cut and paste

[ptrcao]

I wanna paste the following directly from my Linux terminal into my latex editor. But I want the formatting, in particular, the line breaks and the spacing to be preserved. How, please?

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peter@peter-ubuntu:/media/SAMSUNG$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for peter: 

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd21cd21c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1       66046   530508440+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           66046      121602   446253057    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           66046       94882   231630865   83  Linux
/dev/sda6          120781      121602     6589440   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7   *       94883      119960   201434112   83  Linux
/dev/sda8          119960      120780     6589440   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb19cf899

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       60801   488384000+   7  HPFS/NTFS

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could use a verbatim environment:

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\begin{verbatim}
... % paste your text here
\end{document}

There are packages such as fancyvrb and examplep providing further verbatim environments. You could also use the listings package which provides further formatting features.

Stefan