[1.7.27] cannot redirect output to /dev/clipboard: "write error: Permission denied"

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Jan 7 15:53:00 GMT 2014


On Jan  7 00:29, Jeremy Hetzler wrote:
> I am getting errors when using bash redirect syntax to write to
> /dev/clipboard. Reading works ok.
> 
> # this does not work
> $ echo "foo bar" >file.txt
> 
> $ cat file.txt >/dev/clipboard
> cat: write error: Permission denied

That's supposed to be fixed in CVS since 2013-12-10.  Try a recent
snapshot.


Corinna

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