It occurred to me that there are multiple clipboards on any given Linux console: - First is the bash clipboard, this can be invoked by Ctrl-U / K, cut all line before (U) or after (K) cursor into clipboard, or Ctrl-W, to cut the word on the left side of the cursor (is there a corresponding "cut word on right side"?), and then Ctrl-Y to paste somewhere else. - Then we have the X clipboard, which is setup as follows (I don't know where the names pbcopy and pbpaste come from, but I have seen these names dozens of times, so it seems a lot of people use that nomenclature for some reason):

sudo apt install xclip xsel
alias pbcopy='xclip -selection clipboard'      # To use xclip for copy
alias pbpaste='xclip -selection clipboard -o'  # To use xclip for paste
alias pbcopy='xsel --clipboard --input'        # To use xsel for copy
alias pbpaste='xsel --clipboard --output'      # To use xsel for paste

- Then, additionally, if you are on WSL, there is a third clipboard, from Windows, which you can send to quite simply, e.g. echo 123 | clip.exe. To do the reverse, and paste into the WSL console, you can use powershell.exe -noprofile Get-Clipboard > file.txt. It would be be good to completely control how information is sent/retrieved from these various clipboards easily. - I can pipe information into the X clipboard (with xclip and xsel), but I have not found a way to pipe things into the bash buffer; how do we pipe into the bash buffer programmatically? - How can I pipe something into all 4 clipboards (assuming that xclip and xsel are independent?) from one output in single command (I seem to remember that tee can do this, but not certain)? By knowing this, I would then be able to send receive information from any of the 4 clipboards.

echo 123 |

For reference, though does not answer the above. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5130968/how-can-i-copy-the-output-of-a-command-directly-into-my-clipboard

I am trying to answer this other question: [Command/script to start a terminal, enter text but don't execute...](https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/644117/341192) . I want to start the terminal and add specific text to it **without executing**, thus allowing me to copy some other variable text to it before executing. It's like when pasting sudo apt install mpv into terminal without space at the end: the command will not start, but allow for example to add other programs to be installed. I have come close to a solution with xsel, which can send a command to terminal with a shortcut. The commands to be used can be something like bash -c "xsel -ib <<< 'MY_TEXT'" or bash -c "xsel -p <<< 'MY_TEXT'" Thus, I can send that text to clipboard with one shortcut, open terminal with another shortcut, then paste what xsel has copied to clipboard. The problem is that the xsel command sends to clipboard the text with a space or Enter at the end It's `MY_TEXT instead of MY_TEXT` It's like the difference between `sudo apt install mpv which automatically runs the installation command and sudo apt install mpv` that waits for me to press enter.

I've added some keyboard shortcuts in my Zsh to enable selecting words. In order for the selection to do something, I would like to use Ctrl + C to copy it. However I would also like to use Ctrl + C to interrupt programs, when the Zsh Line Editor (ZLE) isn't active. Is this possible and how can I do this? I tried to declare a function TRAPINT to hook Ctrl + C, however when I'm in the ZLE and hit Ctrl + C, this function doesn't appear to be called.

I am using the following config in my .zshrc. if [[ -t 0 && $- = *i* ]] then # change Ctrl+C to Ctrl+I stty start '' stty stop '' stty quit '' stty erase '' stty kill '' stty eof '' # Ctrl + D stty rprnt '' stty werase '' stty lnext '' stty discard '' fi # change Ctrl+C to Ctrl+Q stty intr '^q' # change Ctrl+z to Ctrl+j stty susp '^j' # change Ctrl+V to Ctrl+K bindkey '^k' quoted-insert # for zle _copy-using-xsel() { if ((REGION_ACTIVE)) then zle copy-region-as-kill printf "$CUTBUFFER" | xsel -i --clipboard ((REGION_ACTIVE = 0)) fi } zle -N _copy-using-xsel bindkey '^C' _copy-using-xsel # Copy text _cut-using-xsel() { if ((REGION_ACTIVE)) then zle copy-region-as-kill printf "$CUTBUFFER" | xsel -i --clipboard zle kill-region fi } zle -N _cut-using-xsel bindkey '^X' _cut-using-xsel # Cut text _paste-copy-using-xsel() { LBUFFER+="$(xsel -b -o)" } zle -N _paste-copy-using-xsel bindkey '^V' _paste-copy-using-xsel # Paste It enables me to copy using ctrl+c, cut using ctrl+x, paste using ctrl+v. However, I noticed that the operations are slow. I mean it appears to me that, it takes half a second to cut. Is it due to the use of xsel? How can I optimize my keybindings so that the lag is gone.

I am trying to yank string without trailing and heading spaces using this keybinding: bind-key -T copy-mode-vi z send-keys -X \ copy-pipe 'sed "s/^[[:blank:]]\+//;s/[[:blank:]]\+$//" | xsel -ib' But it doesn't work, xsel -ob outputs string with spaces. So does Ctrl+V in GUI applications. Why? How can I achieve desired functionality? tmux 2.6, set-clipboard off **EDIT**: I've tested my sed expression and it works: igor@igor-ideapad:~$ echo " hello world " | sed "s/^[[:blank:]]\+//;s/[[:blank:]]\+$//" hello world

I install xclip to access system clipboard, my setting and some operations as below: ➜ ~ cat .zshrc | grep xclip alias c="xclip -selection c" alias v="xclip -selection c -o" ➜ ~ which dict | c ➜ ~ v /usr/bin/dict ➜ ~ sudo vim ?? /usr/bin/dict is a python script. And what I want to know is what can substitute ?? on my last command can use vim open file /usr/bin/dict?

xsel is a program with which you can access system clipboard from command line. If there is no newline at the end of copied content, it prints a warning after the clipboard content like this: $ xsel -b copied text \ No newline at end of selection Earlier I used to think that this warning is printed to the standard error, but today I found that the warning is not there even if the standard error is merged with the standard output.xsel-b |& less just prints the copied text, without the warning. Why does it behave like this?

tee can redirect the piped standard input into the standard output **and** file. echo Hello, World! | tee greeting.txt The command above would display the greeting on the terminal screen and save it in the contents of greeting.txt file, creating the file if there's none by that name. There's also -a switch for tee to append to the existing file instead of overwriting. --- Is there a convenient way to redirect the piped input to the command and **standard output** instead of file? I am trying to create a wrapper script for [buku](https://github.com/jarun/Buku) to copy to primary selection the URL of the bookmark specified by its index number. # bukuc: #!/bin/sh url=$(buku -f 1 -p $1 | cut -f 2) # NUMBER : URL echo $url # DISPLAY echo $url | xsel # PRIMARY SELECTION Here I use echo **two** times, first for displaying on the terminal, and then saving in the primary selection (clipboard). I imagine something of echo $url | teeC xsel or a shortcut to display the output before passing to the next command (chaining commands), what would allow me to chain the whole command in one line without the need to save the result in a **variable** as follows: buku -f 1 -p $1 | cut -f 2 | teeC xsel --- I can also use it with [urlview](https://github.com/sigpipe/urlview) to view, select, and open with the $BROWSER as follows: bukuc 10-20 | urlview

I am trying to use xsel clipboard to pipe search term to grep to search in folder full of txt files. Can anybody suggest a method to do it.

The usages of xsel and xclip seem to me all about the copy operation, whether it is primary or clipboard selection. When I perform the paste operation, is it only by using mouse or trackpad, not via xsel and xclip again?

I'm trying to bind control + i to load the contents of file.txt to the clipboard (so that I can use ctrl + v to paste the contents of file.txt into windows like my browser). The following command works perfectly if I manually type it into a bash terminal: xsel --clipboard < /home/paul/Dropbox/file.txt However, when I try to use xbindkeys to do it, it does not. This is what I have in my xbindkeys config: "xsel --clipboard < /home/paul/Dropbox/file.txt" control + i What could be causing this problem?

Here is the situation. I often have to read chunks of information from large plain text files. I am planning to use Readability extension for formating the content to make it readable on screen.