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xclip is a command line interface to the X11 clipboard.

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xclip check if "selection" is empty

As an FYI this is on Linux. I want to have one of the options in a script to be to pull the selected text. So I start my script #!/bin/bash xclip -o > ~/bin/temp.txt However, if I don't have anything selected this throws the error ./test Error:…
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Vim, yanking with xclip, getting rid of escape characters

I am using vim to edit files on several systems through ssh, some of which have or do not have -clipboard option compiled in. Therefore I have been trying to use xclip to copy some parts of the text into the X clipboard, which is then promptly piped…
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xclip and trailing spaces

I use xclip to get my current path in my clipboard this way : pwd | xclip -selection c it almost works : if you paste (ctrl v) in an empty file, you will see that there is a trailing carriage return. It's very annoying since if you past in a term,…
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Sending Strings Queue to Clipboard in python

I am writing a program that runs in background and check's for file changes in a folder if any new Image file arrives into that folder it will read text from that Image with the help of tesseract OCR Engine.Images contains Adresses of…
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Unexpected EOF in .bashrc alias

I am getting an unexpected end of file error after including this line in my .bashrc alias domsrv01='echo -e ?HT_R8\'% | xclip ; ssh 10.50.0.35' The desired exit from echo to xclip is: ?HT_R8'% As you may guess, it's a password and I can't change…
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Why can't I paste using python3 pyperclip in Debian 12?

In Chapter 6 of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (by Sweigart) the following example usage of pyperclip is given for copying 'Hello, world'! to the clipboard. However when pressing Ctrl + V in a text editor after running the example code,…
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xclip -selection returning last selected text when nothing is selected

Problem using xclip to output current highlighted text to stdout: xclip -o -selection When text is selected/highlighted in the desktop gui, it sends that text to stdout, as expected. But if I then deselect the text, and run the xclip command again,…
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Is there anyway to fix the xclip relate with neovim "+y?clipboard: error: Error: target STRING not available

When use neovim to copy content to system clipboard with "+y way. It works well if neovim's window doesn't close, if I close neovim window, the content of + register will disappear. for example, then if I use tow neovim, one copy someword, another…
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xclip not getting stdin from pexpect, or pexpect not sending?

This import pexpect def run(cmd, stdin): child = pexpect.spawn(cmd, encoding='utf-8') child.send(stdin) child.sendeof() run('xclip -selection clipboard', 'lol') should copy string lol into my clipboard, so that I paste it around by…
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Programmatically Executing Clipboard Contents within Bash Shell (or Better Approach)

I'm currently working on a bash script which will send the current timestamp and the IP of a system (running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) to a Slack channel using a webhook as shown below: ##!/bin/bash command=(curl -X POST -H \'Content-type:…
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Fish shell function behave differently when called using $TERM -e

I have the following fish function, that passes a list of words to fzf and once I select one, it removes the line break from the end and send it to the clipboard. function spell_checker fzf < /usr/share/dict/words | tr -d '\n' | xclip -selection…
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KDE Custom shortcut to re-implementing copy paste (could DBus work ?)

I'm on KDE in french and I use the Raccourcis Personalisés menu to create custom keyboard shortcuts, I would like ⊞ Windows+C and ⊞ Windows+V to be copy (bash xclip -selection clipboard) and paste (xclip -selection clipboard) but writing those…
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Code in Shell Script runs before other Operations

This same problem is better formulated in a question posted to the Unix & Linux StackExchange community. I am programming a script which opens on a key press, open a new terminal (gnome-terminal), runs scrot (screenshot tool), saves the picture…
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How to copy output of command line from remote, to local clipboard via ssh

I am using HPC on campus and it is CentOS. I asked administrator to install xclip in HCP. But he said it would endanger to HPC. I am not root user. I am wondering whether there is a way to I can copy output of command line to clipboard directly…
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when linux system calls scripts some commands don't work ( cron / if-up.d )

Hi I'm trying to run a script that calls xclip in order to have a string ready to paste when i connect to the internet. I have a script /etc/network/if-up.d/script that does execute when connecting (i make him post a date in a file succesfuly ) but…
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