on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:07:26AM +1000, Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK - the power of #slug couldn't answer this - lets see if the mailing
> list can do any better.
>
> I'm looking for a CL tool that reads STDIN and places it into the paste
> buffer......
It does exist.
NAME
xcut - Manipulate X cut buffers from command line
SYNOPSIS
xcut [-display displayname] [-p]
DESCRIPTION
This is the manual page for xcut version 0.2.
I use this in combo with
NAME
prtsel - writes PRIMARY selection to standard output
SYNOPSIS
prtsel [options]
DESCRIPTION
prtsel writes the text currently selected with a mouse under X11 to
standard output. It does this by converting the PRIMARY
selection to CUTBUFFER0 as type STRING and then writing CUTBUFFER0 to
standard output
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