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Royle
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 Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:19 am Post subject: How to copy text from a console? |
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| I'm wondering if its possible and how to copy text from a console (xterm) and paste it into another program like firefox. Thanks in advance for your help! |
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michaelarch
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MagnusBerg
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I use GClipper. I just select the text with the mouse and it's there in GClippers memory to paste out with the middle mousebutton. It can save a lot of clips in it's memory and I have never filled it up.
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teknomage1
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I wrote a perl script using the DCOP module from the KDE project that let's you pipe a command's ouput directly into klipper.
| Code: | #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use DCOP;
#connect and register with DCOP
$dcop_client = new DCOP;
$dcop_client->attach();
#create a klipper object
$klip_obj = $dcop_client->createObject("klipper", "klipper");
#grab our data
my @clipboard_lines;
while(<>)
{
chomp($line = $_);
push(@clipboard_lines, $line);
}
$lines = join("\n", @clipboard_lines);
#use the klipper object to put our data in the clipboard
$klip_obj->setClipboardContents("$lines");
#unregister with DCOP like a good citizen
$dcop_client->detach(); |
save that in /usr/local/bin as sklip and then call it from the command line like this. | Code: | | cat ~/bin/sklip |sklip |
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