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This executes v as a command first and then substitutes it in-place for cd to use. Without using external tools, if you are connecting to the server view SSH, this is a relatively easy command:. Falko Timme Follow me on Twitter. Active 9 days ago. For those using bash installed on their windows system known as Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL , attempting xclip will give an error:

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xclip(1) - Linux man page

Can't get this to work at all in Ubuntu I wrote down the complete procedure just in case anyone else needs it. Based on previous posts, I ended up with the following light-weigh alias solution that can be added to.

Using the script is very simple since you simply pipe in or out of clipboard as shown in these two examples. I come from a stripped down KDE background and do not have access to xclipxsel or the other fancy stuff.

Command-Line Copy&Paste With xclip (Debian/Ubuntu)

To put the output of a command into the clipboard, we have to pipe the command into xclip, e. How can I pipe the output of a command into my clipboard and paste it back when using a terminal? Thank you for your interest in this question.

Falko Timme Follow me on Twitter. It would be very useful for collecting clips of text in a file.

Followed by a TCSH alias in the. That would send the date command output to the clipboard and pass it along to the tee -a command which appends it to a file and passes it along to stdout. Wherever that text is going, it certainly isn't to the main clipboard. And if its sufficiently inconvenient to select it with the mouse due to its size, having some special program load it into the magic 'clipboard' seems a rather confused approach.

It xcclip allows you xclpi put the contents of a file directly into the clipboard. Post as a guest Name. Asked 8 years, 7 months ago. Or even skip the temp file, and let gedit load it directly Yes you can launch gedit from the CLI, and yes, it can load content from its standard input - http: I made a small tool providing similar functionality, without using xclip or xsel.

There is xclil information about the different clipboards on freedesktop. Yes, my password is: Just to cover an edge case: Ryan Dsouza Ryan Dsouza 31 4 4 bronze badges. AfshinMoazami, the title and the question itself is generic, Only the tags hint for unix system, and my answer covers the case when you try to get the date FROM a unix server TO a Windows machine, which may be useful future readers.

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