Command line clipboard

README.md

Simple command line clipboard using xclip

Installation

# Install xclip (if not already installed)
if [ -z `which xclip` ]; then sudo apt-get install xclip; fi

# Download script and make it executable
sudo wget -O /usr/bin/clipboard https://gist.githubusercontent.com/christophetd/63f8986dcd367c758dac/raw/9017ce92c98fb80c01c73938d583e84416d026c4/clipboard
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/clipboard

Usage

some-command | clipboard [-p]

Executes 'some-command', copies its output to the clipboard and prints it to STDOUT if the -p option is specified

Examples :

• ls | clipboard -p Prints the content of the current directory and copies it to the clipboard

• cat /var/log/apache2/access.log | clipboard Copies the content of the apache access log in the clipboard

• cat somefile.txt | clipboard -p | grep banana | wc -l (a bit more advanced) Copies the content of somefile.txt in the clipboard and prints the number of lines the word 'banana' appears in

clipboard

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z `which xclip` ]; then
	echo "You must instal xclip (sudo apt-get install xclip) to use this script" 1>&2
	exit 1
fi

if [ "$1" = "-p" ]; then
	exec 3>&1
	cat | tee /dev/fd/3 | xclip -sel clip 
else
	cat | xclip -sel clip
fi