This is my blog » linux http://www.ronniealleva.org There are many like it but this one is mine Mon, 10 May 2010 07:06:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Script-fu: cat directly to X clipboard http://www.ronniealleva.org/index.php/2009/04/10/script-fucat-directly-to-x-clipboard/ http://www.ronniealleva.org/index.php/2009/04/10/script-fucat-directly-to-x-clipboard/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:48:52 +0000 Ronnie http://www.ronniealleva.org/?p=44 Have you ever wanted to ‘cat’ a file directly to the clipboard? OF COURSE, why else would you be reading this sentence?

Simply install ‘xclip’, which is simple also, if you are on ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install xclip

Anything that you pipe to it goes to the X11 clipboard. Once there, you can just hit the middle mouse button to paste it where you want, just as if you had highlighted it. So you can do things like this:

$ cat some.file | xclip
$ nslookup somehost | xclip
$ ./runsomeawesomescriptthatyouwanttheoutputintheclipboard.sh | xclip
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