substitute for xclip?

[Ulli Horlacher]

On Wed 2022-10-19 (02:01), Backwoods BC wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:59 PM Ulli Horlacher
> <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> 
> >
> > With Linux I am using xclip to read the X11 clipboard.
> > Is there a cygwin equivalent to read the Windows clipboard?
> 
> There are 2 ways to access the clipboard:
> 1. The commands 'getclip' and 'putclip'

W10dev:~: getclip
bash: getclip: command not found

I found getclip in package cygutils-extra.



> 2. Redirection to/from /dev/clipboard

https://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fop/jFZ6T7wI/X-20221019141237.png

I have selected [copy] in the file browser, but /dev/clipboard is empty.
Also getclip gives me no output.


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