Access the X Window System Clipboard from the Command Line with ...

Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community Tue, 03/17/2009 - 08:50

Ever selected text from your terminal so you could paste it into an X application? Drop the mouse and use xclip instead.

Using xclip, you simply can pipe the contents that you want to clip directly into xclip:

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