redirecting output to the clipboard in xubuntu

[Thilo Six]

Aroon Pahwa wrote the following on 13.09.2006 22:43:
> i've googled around for this and i found the solution seems to be
> distro/windowmanager??? specifc.  anyone know how to redirect output to
> the clipboard.
> 
> ie. i want to do something like
> 
> cat somefile.txt > [clipboard filedescriptor]
> 
> or grep something somefile.txt > [clipboard]
> 
> im running xubuntu 6.06
> 
> thanks!
> 
> aroon
> 

you need to install:

$ aptitude search xclip
 p   | 0.08-4.1ub | xclip | command line interface to X selections

Then you can do:
$ cat some-text-file.txt | xclip

or

$ ls -l | xclip


then go to e.g. gedit and paste with middle mouse.
works here.

$ man xclip for further details

HTH Thilo
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