Re: Clipboard command line utility

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I actually did not know about xclip, I wrote the utility to use it, not as
an exercise. Thanks for the link.

Do you have any other favorite command line utilities?

Thanks,
Dan Finnie

On 1/3/08, Chad Perrin <perrin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:09:58AM +0900, dfinnie wrote:
I've been doing a lot of Python for Google's Highly Open Participation
contest lately but finally found the time to make a utility I thought
of a few weeks ago. Basically, it allows you to pipe to and from the
clipboard on the command line. Example:

daniel@daniel-desktop:~$ echo 'ruby' | clipboard
daniel@daniel-desktop:~$ clipboard
ruby
daniel@daniel-desktop:~$

I'm not saying you shouldn't write this utility -- I've been known to
duplicate existing utilities at times, too, sometimes with a good reason
and sometimes for less-good reasons. However . . .

Are you aware there's a commonly available utility for this already
called xclip? I use it pretty extensively.

ren@kokopelli:~> echo 'ruby'|xclip
ren@kokopelli:~> xclip -o
ruby
ren@kokopelli:~> cat books.txt
Policy Made Easy
ren@kokopelli:~> xclip books.txt
ren@kokopelli:~> xclip -o
Policy Made Easy
ren@kokopelli:~>

. . . et cetera.

FreeBSD:
root@host:/> portinstall xclip
(assuming you use portupgrade)

Debian:
root@host:/# apt-get install xclip

If you already knew about xclip, I'm curious why you are writing what
amounts to a Ruby replacement for it. Are you just practicing? Do you
want to rewrite a bunch of utilities in Ruby kinda like the Perl Power
Tools? Do you dislike the xclip licensing?

Feel free to refuse to cater to my idle curiosity. I'm just nosy that
way.

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