This software is a command-line interface tool designed to manage the X11 clipboard. It allows efficient handling of copy-paste operations in the X Window System.
I recently tried xclip, a command-line interface (CLI) to the X11 clipboard, and found it to be a useful tool for copying files. It serves as an alternative to sftp/scp and obviates password prompts when X11 forwarding is already established.
The usage is straightforward. You simply enter "./xclip [OPTION] [FILE]..." to access an X server selection for reading or writing. The -i, -in option reads text into X selection from standard input or files, which is the default setting. You can use -o, -out to print the selection to standard out, generally for piping to a file or program. Additionally, you can customize the number of selection requests to wait for before exiting with -l, -loops.
There are more advanced options available with xclip. For example, the -display option allows you to connect to a specific X display (e.g. localhost:0"), and the -selection option allows you to select the type of selection to access ("primary", "secondary", "clipboard" or "buffer-cut"). You can also use -noutf8 if you do not want to treat text as utf-8 and prefer to use older unicode. Finally, the -version option gives version information, and the -silent, -quiet and -verbose options control the verbosity of error messages.
Overall, I found xclip to be a convenient and versatile tool for managing clipboard content and file transfers using command-line interface.
The usage is straightforward. You simply enter "./xclip [OPTION] [FILE]..." to access an X server selection for reading or writing. The -i, -in option reads text into X selection from standard input or files, which is the default setting. You can use -o, -out to print the selection to standard out, generally for piping to a file or program. Additionally, you can customize the number of selection requests to wait for before exiting with -l, -loops.
There are more advanced options available with xclip. For example, the -display option allows you to connect to a specific X display (e.g. localhost:0"), and the -selection option allows you to select the type of selection to access ("primary", "secondary", "clipboard" or "buffer-cut"). You can also use -noutf8 if you do not want to treat text as utf-8 and prefer to use older unicode. Finally, the -version option gives version information, and the -silent, -quiet and -verbose options control the verbosity of error messages.
Overall, I found xclip to be a convenient and versatile tool for managing clipboard content and file transfers using command-line interface.
What's New
Version 0.11: N/A