Select to clipboard at the ubuntu command line
Copying and pasting without a mouse - or programmatically - can be incredibly
challenging. Ubuntu provides an apt-get installable program xclip which can
provide X11 clipboard access at the command line.
> echo PASTEME | xclip -sel clip
The value PASTEME is now in the clipboard buffer.
The -sel or -selection indicates the buffer that will be used, primary, secondary or clipboard. Generally, clipboard is the buffer that we want.
To output the value of the buffer use the -o or -output flag:
> xclip -sel clip -o
PASTEME