xclip Reviews and details

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• macOS Command-Line Tools You Might Not Know About

  I find it so annoying that these only work with plain text and RTF. On X11 there is `xclip`[0] and on Wayland there is `wl-clipboard`[1] both of which support binary file formats either through parsing the header or explicitly setting the MIME type. This means you can do things like copy an image from the terminal and paste it into a graphical program like a browser or chat client and vice-versa. Also can be very... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Best program to paste premade text from a file to where the cursor is on a desktop environment

  I haven't used it in a while but xclip is a thing for X11 and you can create your own keyboard shortcuts and present a window with zenity or something. Source: over 1 year ago

• Do you find yourself often deleting a ":wq<newline>" from nano before pressing <ctrl>-X?

  Lately I've become a big fan of Micro. It's as portable as Nano. By default it uses the same shortcuts as typical desktop programs: Ctrl-S for save, Ctrl-Q for quit, Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V for copy/paste, etc. It integrates well with Linux desktops' clipboards by optionally using xclip. Just like Nano, it can have multiple files open for easy copy/pasting between files. But the best thing of all is that its... Source: over 2 years ago

• Use the Clipboard from the Command Line

  In addition to pbcopy for macOS and clip for Windows, there's also xclip for Linux. It doesn't look like it's been updated in a long time, but it meets my needs. https://github.com/astrand/xclip. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago