Issue
How can I pipe the output of a command into my clipboard and paste it back when using a terminal? For instance:
cat file | clipboard
Solution
I always wanted to do this and found a nice and easy way of doing it. I wrote down the complete procedure just in case anyone else needs it.
First install a 16 kB program called xclip:
sudo apt-get install xclip
You can then pipe the output into xclip to be copied into the clipboard:
cat file | xclip
To paste the text you just copied, you shall use:
xclip -o
To simplify life, you can set up an alias in your .bashrc file as I did:
alias "c=xclip"
alias "v=xclip -o"
To see how useful this is, imagine I want to open my current path in a new terminal window (there may be other ways of doing it like Ctrl+T on some systems, but this is just for illustration purposes):
Terminal 1:
pwd | c
Terminal 2:
cd `v`
Notice the ` ` around v. This executes v as a command first and then substitutes it in-place for cd to use.
Only copy the content to the X clipboard
cat file | xclip
If you want to paste somewhere else other than a X application, try this one:
cat file | xclip -selection clipboard
Answered By - Legend