Copy and paste at the Linux command line with xclip

Posted by bob on Jul 6, 2019 2:11 AM EDT
Opensource.com; By Scott Nesbitt
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How do you usually copy all or part of a text file when working on the Linux desktop? Chances are you open the file in a text editor, select all or just the text you want to copy, and paste it somewhere else. That works. But you can do the job a bit more efficiently at the command line using the xclip utility. xclip provides a conduit between commands you run in a terminal window and the clipboard in a Linux graphical desktop environment.

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