Manipulate the X Clipboard from the Command Line
2015 November 7
The key is the xclip program! To put text
into the X clipboard (“copy”):
xclip -b <file.txt
To fetch the text from the X clipboard (“paste”):
xclip -b -o >file.txt
On Fedora, this requires installing the xsel package.
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