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Asked: 2010-04-26 10:28:05 +0800 CST

ssh -x : howto get clipboard?

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I'm connected to a server via ssh -x and my only way to get text out of the system is the x clipboard (unless i want to take thousends of screenshots and OCR over it).

I can not execute any programs on the other machine, because i don't have access.

How can I achive this?

linux ssh clipboard

2 Answers

  1. Use xclip.

    On the remote computer

    xclip a_text_file_with_some_data.txt

    On the local computer 

    xclip -o > test.txt

    You did move the text via the clipboard, but not the "normal" way :)

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  2. Many terminal emulators (PuTTY, gnome-terminal, Xterm) let you either:

    • log all terminal output to a file, or
    • set a really big scrollback buffer (01000 lines or so) and then copy all of it.
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