Questions tagged [xclip]
xclip is a command line interface to the X11 clipboard. It can also be used for copying files, as an alternative to sftp/scp, thus avoiding password prompts when X11 forwarding has already been setup.
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nano command execution stuck
In nano v8.0 there's an option to send selection to X clipboard in the nanorc: "{execute}|xsel -ib{enter}{undo}" which does perfectly. I tried using xclip utility instead: "{execute}|...
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Are there two different clipboards? Why does copy/paste work differently depending upon keys used (shift-insert & ctrl-v)? [duplicate]
It's as if there are two different system clipboards (stash places for copied text), with two different ways of accessing them. I've noticed this for quite some time but never been able to narrow it ...
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Disable automatically copying selection to clipboard in urxvt
There are 2 kind of clipboards on my os (manjaro i3). Xclip, which keeps the last selected text, and the regular clipboard which must be explicitly copied. I have noticed urxvt copies selected text in ...
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No new line when piping into xclip
Is there something I can do so that whenever I pipe something into xclip it does not include a new line at the end? As a workaround, I am using echo -n $(CMD_TO_COPY) | xclip, but it's kind of ...
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How to paste selection from vi-mode to clipboard
I want to access the content of what I copied in the buffer with the vi-mode of the clipboard via the command ctrl + v or ctrl + shift + v in the terminal. I copied in my .zshrc the following: (from ...
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Why tldr | xclip outputs escape codes looking like timestamp, and how to remove it?
Problem I want to copy the output of tldr to clipboard, and then paste that to text editor. I execute: tldr pwd | xclip -sel clip When I paste from clipboard, I get: pwd [0mPrint name of current/...
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Linux clipboards, including with WSL consoles
It occurred to me that there are multiple clipboards on any given Linux console: First is the bash clipboard, this can be invoked by Ctrl-U / K, cut all line before (U) or after (K) cursor into ...
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Setting an alias for copying the current path from shell to clipboard fails [duplicate]
I have added the following alias to my .zshrc: alias pwdc="echo -n $PWD | xclip -selection clipboard" it seems the present working directory is not getting updated, when I move to a ...
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