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akdom
Asked: 2009-06-26 09:19:14 +0800 CST

Copy File to Clipboard

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Simple Question that I just realized would be very useful.

Under Linux (or really any 'nix environment) is it possible from the command line (or by other fashions, but primarily command line) to copy a file to the clipboard? Any example of this working would be appreciated but the best answer would be a general case in which this is possible across multiple 'nix environments (I'm running Fedora 10 atm if that makes any difference).

command-line-interface copy nix clipboard

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  1. Best Answer

    Looks like you want xclip.

    Usage:

    xclip -t clipboard somefile

    or an example using using pipes:

    grep "needle" myfile.txt | xclip -t clipboard

    Without the -t clipboard the data will go to PRIMARY selection.

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  2. Are you in X? Or text-only?

    If you're in text mode, it's dead simple if you're using screen (which is awesome):

    <C-A>:readbuf /path/to/file

    To paste:

    <C-A>]
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