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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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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How to create a keyboard shortcut for playing youtube videos with mpv?
I'm using Pop OS. I've aliased the command mpv $(xclip -o) & exit to pp so I can play youtube links copied to my clipboard with mpv player in lesser keystrokes in the terminal.
I realised I may ...
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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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tmux paste does not allow letters 't', 'm', 'u', 'x'
I have been messing with tmux config to get copy paste working, and I have it aproximately correct. I can copy things in tmux appropriately, but when I paste things in tmux will cut out any of the ...
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how to pipe Wayland clipboard into an X vnc session clipboard over ssh
I am using Wayland on Arch, and am sshed into a debian server which uses X11. I have a vnc session running over that ssh connection. I would like to take a string that I have stored in my Wayland ...
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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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How can read the content of the active window?
I am trying to create a bash script that selects the content of the active window, copies the content to the clipboard, and saves the content to a file. This file then gets read by some text editor, ...
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Why tldr | xclip outputs escape codes looking like timestamp, and how to remove it?
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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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How to persist the contents of the X11 (copy) clipboard on closing e.g. Vim to paste its contents later?
If I copy to X11 (copy) clipboard in Vim using "+y, I can only paste contents as long as Vim is open. The reason is as follows:
From Ubuntu Wiki: ClipboardPersistence:
The problem happens ...
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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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how can I "pipe" all of these to xclip preservering newlines
So, I'm creating this little convenience command for system information when bug reporting.
alias clip="xclip -selection clipboard -in"
alias bug="echo $(lsb_release -irs && ...
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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 $PWD | xclip -selection clipboard"
it seems the present working directory is not getting updated, when I move to a ...
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Arch linux: set copy/paste/cut shortcuts
I would like to set custom keyboard shortcuts for using clipboard. I would like to change it from:
Copy: ctrl + c in programs, ctrl + shift + c in terminal
Paste: ctrl + v in programs, ctrl + shift + ...
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Copy file name without extension in Vifm
From the the Vifm wiki and using xclip, they show how to copy the filename of a selected file:
nnoremap yn :!echo -n %c | xclip -selection clipboard %i<cr>:echo expand('%"c') "is ...
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Piping to "xclip" doesn't survive bash script termination
I have an interactive fzf bash script that puts my choice into the X clipboard, like so:
#!/bin/bash
cat /path/to/file.txt | fzf | xclip -sel p -sel s -sel c
exit 0
The text file contains some ...
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xclip to multiple targets
How do I copy different texts to multiple targets using xclip (or other tools)?
I tried doing
echo "TEST_STRING" | xclip -selection clipboard -t STRING
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Copy any kind of file to clipboard with xclip
So, I want to be able to copy any kind of file to an X clipboard with a shell script (mostly as a means to copy files in ranger, to gui applications).
So far i have this script:
TYPE=$(file -b --mime-...
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No package found: install xclip in RHEL 7.6
I am new to the RHEL and want to install xclip package.
I have tried
yum install xclip
It returned
no package xclip
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Firefox download file and copy to clipboard
For academic research I work with Firefox and many sites have the option to export entries as Bibtex files which opens a download dialog.
I'm looking for a way to directly copy those files to the ...
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Yank trimmed string in tmux copy mode
I am trying to yank string without trailing and heading spaces using this keybinding:
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi z send-keys -X \
copy-pipe 'sed "s/^[[:blank:]]\+//;s/[[:blank:]]\+$//" | xsel -ib'
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How to use existing terminal session to save output with ANSI escape code like `script` or `screen -L` do?
I run a python script on konsole to print long logging for few hours, then I realized I want to save its output with color, but it's too late to run either script or screen -L to save the output as ...
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Xclip command works in shell but not in keyboard shortcut
I have to paste my email often during the day, and typing it is time consuming. That is why I am searching for a way to do this with a button press.
The following command works to place my mail on my ...
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Pbcopy acts as Pbpaste when symlinked
To keep my configs sane between environments, I thought it's a great idea to do the following on MacOS.
ln -s /usr/bin/pbcopy /usr/local/bin/xclip
However, my xclip symlink does not act just as ...
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How to replace CTRL+C shortcut with same action plus xclip save copied selection command?
I am trying to be able to save/log all clipboard selection copies to a clipboard_histroy.log file. I want this to be able to simply append each copied selection to the log file but at the same time ...
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How to grab x characters long of start text from xclip selection and append to filename?
So I am trying to figure out how to add a title after the timestamp in my xclip script here. I would like it to grab about 24 characters worth of text from the beginning of each selection and save it ...
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How to get clipboard as input file name to Vim on bash?
I install xclip to access system clipboard, my setting and some operations as below:
➜ ~ cat .zshrc | grep xclip
alias c="xclip -selection c"
alias v="xclip -selection c -o"
➜ ~ which dict | c
➜ ~ ...
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xclip copy file so it can be pasted as a file (not file content) [duplicate]
How can I copy a file with xclip, so that it is pastable as a file in file explorers?
I searched on google an so on and found stuff like this Copy file to xclip and paste to Firefox, but there it is ...
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How can I paste a gif from the clipboard with xclip?
I'm trying to copy a gif into my clipboard such that I would be able to paste it into web applications (slack, github, etc.).
I have tried the following without any luck:
xclip -selection clipboard -...
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xclip doesn’t send contents to netcat
I got an assignment from my teacher to try and beat a bot which sends a number each time and I need to send the exact number, but faster.
I wrote a bash script:
#!/bin/bash
while true; do
nc ip ...
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Global filter on clipboard?
I'd like to make kind of filter for clipboard to remove newline characters at the end from anything I copy-paste on a daily basis. I know I could set a daemon listening through xclip for changes and ...
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Piping to another program in the middle of a oneliner
I'm trying to create a simple bash one line script that allows me to pick a particular barcode that's visible on my screen and make it available as text on my clipboard. To that effect, I wrote a bash ...
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How to chain external commands in VIM?
If I select the following text in a VIM buffer in VISUAL mode
f() {
echo "f";
}
f
and then execute
:'<,'>w !xclip | !eval "$(xclip -o)"
I get
/bin/bash: eval: line 3: syntax error ...
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xclip Outputs "Error: Can't open display: (null)"
I recently installed xclip on my CentOS 7 server. Since my machine does not have an X server, I'd have to configure my machine to forward X11 to my client.
Following the steps explained in this ...
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Tmux run-shell xclip not working
I am using tmux 2.3 and want to define a command to send the paste-buffer to system clipboard. I have tried using the command below and every variant I can think of, but when I try to run it, I get a ...
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Why does xclip-copied text pasted into Gmail on Firefox turn line breaks into spaces?
I have a text editor I made that uses xclip to copy text. I notice that when I paste the xclip-copied text (pasting the regular way, with ctrl+v) into a Gmail email on Firefox 54.0 (64-bit) that I'm ...
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xclip image binary contents pasted into text fields
Say I pick some png file and run the following command:
xclip -selection clip -t image/png image.png
I now have that image in my clipboard. If I paste it somewhere that accepts an image, it is ...
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Copy file to clipboard from console
I'm trying to copy the actual file content, including the file header and binary contents of a file to the clipboard. The file is a .pdf in this case.
I've come across multiple solutions, but they ...
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How to copy text from command line to clipboard without using the mouse?
I'm trying to figure out a way to copy the current text in a command line to the clipboard WITHOUT touching the mouse. In other words, I need to select the text with the keyboard only.
I found a half-...
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xsel and xclip hang
My objective is to make a text on my remote machine (CentOS 7.2) available to seamlessly paste on my local machine (OS X 10.12.2) with the standard ⌘V shortcut. My setup connects to the remote ...
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TMUX 2.3 copy to clipboard
I am using TMUX 2.3 just recently copying stopped working.
Here is the relevant section that lets me copy stuff to the clipboard:
bind-key -t vi-copy 'v' begin-selection
bind-key -t vi-copy y copy-...
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xclip works differently in interactive and non-interactive shells
While investigating a problem described in a question at stackoverflow I simplified it down to a test case demonstrating that in non-interactive mode bash seems to clear the X system clipboard before ...
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Using xclip as workaround for missing key on keyboard?
My q key is gone from my keyboard. I'm trying to assign ctrl-a as a way to enter my q's, so from the bash prompt
echo "q" |xclip; xclip -o
outputs a q.. but saving that to a script then ...
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Is the default selection of xclip the primary one?
In the manpage of xclip
-selection
specify which X selection to use, options are
"primary" to use XA_PRIMARY (default),
"secondary" for XA_SECONDARY or
"clipboard" for XA_CLIPBOARD
Since the ...
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Do xsel and xclip work only for copy and not for paste?
The usages of xsel and xclip seem to me all about the copy operation, whether it is primary or clipboard selection.
When I perform the paste operation, is it only by using mouse or trackpad, not via ...
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Abbreviated long options on the command line of xclip
In the manpage of xclip
-selection
specify which X selection to use, options are
"primary" to use XA_PRIMARY (default),
"secondary" for XA_SECONDARY or
"clipboard" for XA_CLIPBOARD
Note that ...
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Is it possible to know the source (application) of the clipboard?
I've noticed that sometimes clipboard contents become unavailable if the source application (where the content was copied from) is closed.
This leads me to wonder if it's possible to know what the ...
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Is there a way to replace the currently selected text on X11?
I stumbled across xclip which gives you access to the text you have selected on your active window.
I've been thinking if there was a way to alter such text. The workflow I have in mind is the ...
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Use system clipboard in vi-copy mode in tmux
I'm running tmux 1.6 and I'm trying to configure it to use vi-style keybindings as well as use the system clipboard when copying in interactive mode:
set-window-option -g mode-keys vi
bind-key -t vi-...
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xclip does not change the clipboard content
I'm trying to give the following command:
echo "hi" | xclip -selection c
This doesn't work? It has worked in the past, but never consistently. I also tried
echo "hi" | xclip -selection primary
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Copy markdown input to the clipboard as rich text
I'm about to get involved in some collaborative prose writing with a friend of mine via email. As a regular person, he will of course be using MS Word document formats; as a massive nerd, I prefer to ...
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