Vim: copy to X clipboard

.vimrc

" pipe range as a shellescaped string to the vimclip shell script
function Xclip() range
    echo system('echo '.shellescape(join(getline(a:firstline, a:lastline), '\n')).'| ~/bin/vimclip')
endfunction

" bind Ctrl-c and Ctrl-Shift-c to copy
vmap <C-c> :call Xclip()<CR>
vmap <C-C> :call Xclip()<CR>

vimclip

#!/bin/sh

# export the DISPLAY, its not set when vim calls the script
export DISPLAY=:0.0

# this line allows you to also copy the content of complete files to your 
# X clipboard by calling this script with
# vimclip FILENAME
[ $# -ge 1 -a -f "$1" ] && input="$1" || input="-"

# this pipes the input/file to X default clipboard
cat $input | xclip -selection c