I tried to write a simple script to collect data with "copy", script
waits in the loop for data in clipboad and prints that text to stdout
and clears clipboard. Simple and powerful! It works well with xclip but
doesn't work with xsel, like some data are not cleaned and are put to
the stdout again and again. This could be a bug in xsel. Maybe that I
just miss something...
```
#!/bin/bash
# print data from clipboard to stdout, again and again...
MODE="xclip"
#MODE="xsel" # doesn't work well, clipboard is not cleaned and the same text
is printed again and again :-(
function pbcopy()
{
if [ "$MODE" == "xclip" ]; then
xclip -selection clip -i
else
xsel --clipboard --input
fi
}
function pbpaste()
{
if [ "$MODE" == "xclip" ]; then
xclip -selection clip -o
else
xsel --clipboard --output
fi
}
# MAIN
echo -n "" | pbcopy # clear clipboard
while :; do
TXT="$(pbpaste)"
if [ -n "$TXT" ]; then
echo "$TXT"
echo -n "" | pbcopy # clear clipboard
else
sleep 0.1 # sleep 100ms
fi
done
```
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