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

Jay Strauss me at heyjay.com
Tue Apr 24 12:18:32 CDT 2007


On 4/24/07, Joe Digilio <jgd-luni at metajoe.com> wrote:
> There is a debian package called xclip which looks like it's exactly
> what you're looking for.  From the description:
>
>  xclip is a command line utility that is designed to run on any system with an
>  X11 implementation. It provides an interface to X selections ("the clipboard")
>  from the command line. It can read data from standard in or a file and place
>  it in an X selection for pasting into other X applications. xclip can also
>  print an X selection to standard out, which can then be redirected to a file
>  or another program.
>  .
>  Homepage: http://people.debian.org/~kims/xclip/
>
> -Joe

That's perfect.  Thanks Joe
Jay


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