>Is there a way of copying an entire file to the X clipboard.  I picture
>a command line tool:
>
>% copy ~/averylongfile.txt
>
>which copies the contents of averylongfile.txt to the X clipboard.  Then
>I could paste it using Netscape's or Emacs's paste command.

I also would like to know how to do that in X. Under Windows I used
Perl (and Aldo Calpini's modules) to support command line piping to
and from the clipboard, which was very useful, and sorely missed (that
capability, not Windows!).

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