Mark Pearl

Basic Use

XClip is intended for linux, for Mac use PBCopy

Copy text to clipboard

cat sometextfile.txt | xclip -selection c

Paste text from clipboard

xclip -o > helloworld.txt

Misc

Add the following to alias to default xclip to normal clipboard

alias xclip='xclip -selection c'

References

Man Page for XClip
XClip - Useful from the command line



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