Docu review done: Wed 31 Jul 2024 02:41:23 PM CEST

xclip

Table of content

Commands and Descriptions

CommandDescritpion
xclip -sel clipcopies stdin into clipboard
xclip-copyfile [file1] [file2] [fileN]copies files into X clipboard, recursing into directoires
xclip-cutfile [file1] [file2] [fileN]copies the files, but also deletes them afterwards
xclip-pastefileposte the files out of the clipboard

Copy a file

This will not copy the content of the file into your clipboard! The xclip-copyfile is only working internal in linux, so e.g. over vbox it can not transfere it to the host/subsystem

xclip is not only able to copy stdin data into clipboard, it is also able to copy full files.

Copy file:

$ xclip-copyfile /etc/hosts

Past file to current dir:

$ cd /tmp
$ xclip-pastefile

Copy a directory

xclip is also able to deal with a directory structure:

$ xclip-copyfile ~/.vim

And to paste it again use xclip-pastefile as shown above in Copy a file