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benstpierre
Asked: 2010-01-22 16:20:55 +0800 CST

Redirect Linux terminal to clipboard

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Is it possible to redirect the output of your terminal in linux to the clipboard? Right now I am using Ubuntu 9.10 and I simply right click and "copy" the selected text. It would be a lot easier if I could go like this...

grep sometext myfile || clipboard
grep clipboard

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The xclip package will do this. Another similar tool that is also frequently useful is pastebinit.

    Usage is simple just do something like cat /etc/passwd | xclip.

    It is also possible, to take the contents of the clipboard and use it with a command like xclip -out | grep 'foo'.

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  2. The command doesn't work just this way:

    ls | xclip

    You should use this variant to make it work:

    ls | xclip -selection clipboard

    hmm... rather long for such an easy task...

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