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redditPipe to clipboard (clip / xclip / pbcopy)
On Windows, try: echo hello | clip
On Linux, try: echo hello | xclip
On Mac OS X, try: echo hello | pbcopy
For example, you might do (cat myFile.txt | xclip). This would basically allow you to edit the clipboard directly.
Pem (Admin) :: Jan.21.2010 :: Mac OS, Misc, Windows OS :: 1 Comment »
I looked into this for myself earlier today. Below is something helpful to those wanting to insert and retrieve information from the clipboard in a linux distribution. Below that is something that could prove helpful for those with windows.
## Linux ##
> By default, xclip uses the “primary” clipboard, which is what you have copied with your mouse. To get it to use the manual copy clipboard, use xclip -sel clip
instead.
comment #3 here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=413786
## Windows ##
The functionality is available in Active Perl distribution also, which is what I wound up using on the windows box in this exercise; The windows clip.exe didn’t appear to allow for reading the data from the clipboard (only writing into clipboard).
http://www.xav.com/perl/site/lib/Win32/Clipboard.html