On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:15:27PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:09:09PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > Is there a way to run a shell script which would automatically read in > > the current contents of the clipboard, thus avoiding the need for the > > mouse click? > > I used to have a program that did this on an earlier version of HP-UX, > so it is possible. It just echoed the clipboard contents to stdout. I > don't think I have it any more, though, so you might see if freshmeat > has one. Eureka! Check out http://freshmeat.net/projects/xclip/: xclip is a command line utility that is designed to run on any system with an X11 implementation. It provides an interface to X selections ("the clipboard") from the command line. It can read data from standard in or a file and place it in an X selection for pasting into other X applications. xclip can also print an X selection to standard out, which can then be redirected to a file or another program. I haven't tried it yet myself, but it looks like it should do exactly what you want. Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Spokane, Washington, USA http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/ |
