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Access the X Window System Clipboard from the Command Line with xclip

Mar 17, 2009  By Erik Falor
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Ever selected text from your terminal so you could paste it into an X application? Drop the mouse and use xclip instead. Using xclip, you simply can pipe the contents that you want to clip directly into xclip:

$ lspci | xclip

Then, go to your X application and paste the captured output into the application. xclip also lets you “paste” selected text into the terminal. Just use the -o switch to output the highlighted text from the active selection:

$ xclip -o

xclip can be found at sourceforge.net/projects/xclip.

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Thanks so much

Newky's picture
Submitted by Newky (not verified) on Tue, 07/06/2010 - 12:51.

Just found this, and this is amazing... as I use vim all the time, and my current install doesnt have clipboard installed and cant be bothered recompiling.

Thanks

xsel does the same

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Submitted by João Santos (not verified) on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 17:54.

The program xsel does the same

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