[LUNI] capturing shell output in a cut/paste buffer

[Joe Frost]

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 09:53 -0500, Trev Peterson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 09:04 -0400, Joe Frost wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 07:29 -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> > > Is there anyway to run a command and capture the output in a cut/paste buffer?
> > 
> > That's a neat idea, I'd love to hear if it's possible.
> 
> In the end a file is not much different than a buffer is it?  You can
> redirect the output to a file and then redirect that file as input to
> another command (or use pipes if you can do it all at once).

That's the case if you're working on the console.  I think he was
looking for a manner in which to send it to the "middle click" buffer (I
reckon that X is handling that part).

Joe