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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
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