On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Ville Herva wrote: > I was wondering whether people feel that something like this should exist in > the XFree86 distribution:
Yes, please! I was very fortunate to find xcut some months ago, which does the paste thing but not the cut: http://xcut.sourceforge.net/ > echo puppa | xsel -c # 'puppa' is now the current X selection > echo puppa | xsel --copy # same as above > > xsel -p | less # pastes the current X selection to less > xsel --paste | less # same as above Btw. it should be possible to see if stdin or stdout was a pipe and do the right thing automatically. -Peter "C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm." -- Grant Edwards _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
