From go2linux.org
Linux never stops surprising me, I discover a new application, or a new tip every day, I have been with no time this last months so I could not write here as much as I would like.
Anyway, let me share this tip with you.
Today tool is xclips, first of all install it
Debian/Ubuntu
sudo aptitude install xclip
Fedora
sudo yum instal xclip
And for my favorite distro
sudo pacman -S xclip
This great tool sends the output of shell commands to clipboard, which is very useful, if for example you want to create a document containing man pages, to do that just enter:
man htop | xclip
Then go to your favorite word editor and use , or or the middle mouse button to paste the contents of clipboard to your document.
You can copy the output of any command for instance free
free | xclip
These are the results:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2064156 1114088 950068 0 69860 455464
-/+ buffers/cache: 588764 1475392
Swap: 2650684 0 2650684
You can also send the output of the clipboard to a command for instance, if you want to echo some text into a file.
Just select the text from a webpage, use to copy to clipboard, and then in the console run this:
xclip -o > file.txt
Read the xclip man page for more info
