On 03/14/2011 12:31 PM, alfred inacio wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Thanks for your help here. I know exactly what I want, a very simple
> application which copies the output into the clipboard... for example, say
> my program is called bordpst... then if I did this:
> 
> pwd > bordpst
> 
> then, I went into my GUI and pressed ctrl + v, I would paste the directly I
> was in from above. I couldn't find anything like this. Maybe I didn't look
> hard enough?

Sounds like you want to reinvent xclip.

pwd | xclip

then you can ctrl-v that output into anything that understands how to
read the X clipboard.  But that's a much more complex program than one
of the GNU Coreutils, since it involves interactions with X11 code.

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