Cut and paste standard input and output

Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Sun May 12 18:24:00 GMT 2002


Have you seen the 'putclip' and 'getclip' applications that are part of 
the official 'cygutils' package?

--Chuck


Raoul Gough wrote:

> I recently wrote a simple command-line tool that cuts or pastes plain text
> to/from standard input/output. I find it quite useful sometimes, when I've
> got a script that generates some output and I want to process the output in
> a windows application (or vice-versa).
> 
> e.g.
> 
> ls -lR | clipboard -x
> 
> After which, I can paste the ls output direct into a windows App. It's much
> easier than selecting and cutting from the command-shell window, especially
> if there is a lot of output. The command has three options, -x cuts, -c
> copies (kinda like tee) and -v pastes to standard output. If this tool
> doesn't already exist, I'd be willing to contribute the code. Any interest
> and advice on how to submit it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Raoul Gough.
> 
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