Xsel command line clipboard
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#114 by mreschke on 2008-10-14 10:48:08 (viewed 3,029 times)
Program that copies command output to the clipboard
xsel is a linux GNU tool used to copy command line output or file output to your standard clip board for pasting.
http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/command-line-to-clipboard/
To copy a text to the middle mouse button clipboard:
To copy to the context-menu clipboard:
xsel --clipboard < /etc/fstab
Also Xsel can be piped to:
echo “a-bit-of-text” | xsel -c
cat /etc/make.conf | xsel -c
Paste
To output clipboard information to the terminal:
Its just as easy to output clipboard information to a file:
xsel --clipboard > Baada-Boom.txt
To append the information:
xsel --clipboard >> ~/.bashrc