Noob(ish) to Linux here, and trying to pick up new/useful tricks; I was wondering if there's some way to send the output of a command straight to the clipboard?
Something similar to (pseudo-code):
dircolors --print-database > clipboard
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askubuntu.com/questions/11925/…– Artem S. TashkinovCommented Nov 5, 2020 at 18:21
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I will suggest here to use xclip :
1- You will need first to configure X11 display :
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
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X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalhost no
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Restart the sshd service
service sshd restart
Open new ssh session with X11 forwarding enabled :
ssh -X <your_server>
2- Install libXmu-devel :
yum install libXmu-devel
OR on UBUNTU :
sudo apt-get install libxmu-dev
3- Clone xclip repository and compile the program :
git clone https://github.com/astrand/xclip.git
./bootstrap
./configure
make
make install
4- Add the command as an alias to your profile to create a shortcut that will save a lot of your time :
vi ~/.bashrc
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alias pbcopy='xclip -selection clipboard'
alias pbpaste='xclip -selection clipboard -o'
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5- Use case :
cat file | pbcopy
Then the content of your file is copied to your clipboard
When I asked I didn't realize there'd be any real difference between doing what I was looking to do when in WSL vs. "regular" (non-wsl) linux.
After looking over a bunch of references, in my WSL case, the easiest way seems to be to use window's clip.exe, rather than installing something like xclip, creating a bunch of aliases/scripts, etc.
I will try those as well on my Raspberry PI (Raspbian), but for now in WSL just doing this is working great:
<command> | clip.exe
i.e.
dircolors --print-database | clip.exe