One way of doing it follows:
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Install
xclip
, such as:sudo apt-get install xclip
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Pipe the output into
xclip
to be copied into the clipboard:cat file | xclip
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Paste the text you just copied into a
X
application:xclip -o
To paste somewhere else other than an X
application, such as a text area of a web page in a browser window, use:
cat file | xclip -selection clipboard
Consider creating an alias:
alias "c=xclip"
alias "v=xclip -o"
To see how useful this is, imagine I want to open my current path in a new terminal window (there may be other ways of doing it like Ctrl+T on some systems, but this is just for illustration purposes):
Terminal 1:
pwd | c
Terminal 2:
cd `v`
Notice the ` `
around v
. This executes v
as a command first and then substitutes it in-place for cd
to use.
Only copy the content to the X
clipboard
cat file | xclip