PROBLEM:Β It is difficult to copy and past outputs from and to terminal
SOLUTION: Use xclip!
Install xclip
To install xclip on Ubuntu just use apt get, on other use the equivalent command.
apt install xclip
Basic commands
To copy output to your clipboard, just simply use | xclip (| means, everything before pipe is input for command after pipe)like this:
cat myfile | xclip
And you have content of myfile in your clipboard!
To paste from your clipboard, just use:
xclip -o
Advanced strategy!
To work better with xclip, you can use aliases to work faster π
alias c="xclip" alias v="xclip -o"
In use case:
#Copy content of myfile cat myfile | c #Paste content of myfile v
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