Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 09:48:28 -0600 From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> To: "'Thomas Adam'" <thomas.adam22@gmail.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD-Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: xclip Message-ID: <000101ca8af9$de64d3c0$9b2e7b40$@net> In-Reply-To: <20100101152549.GA2220@debian> References: <000401ca8af5$3d7a3440$b86e9cc0$@net> <20100101152549.GA2220@debian>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Adam [mailto:thomas.adam22@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 9:26 AM > To: Charles Howse > Cc: 'FreeBSD-Questions' > Subject: Re: xclip > > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:15:21AM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: > > Hi, > > I have need for a command-line tool to copy to the clipboard in > FreeBSD 6.4. > > As in: command | xclip > > Looked at xclip and xclipboard - > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=xclip&stype=all > > > > I can't tell by the dependencies if this requires the X gui. I'm > running > > command-line-only and DON'T want to install X. > > Can anyone help? Thanks! > > Yes it does require X, because it puts it in the PRIMARY_SELECTION. > > What are you trying to do? Hi Thomas, thanks for the reply. This is kinda gnarly. I'm using VMware Player on Windows 7, FreeBSD is the guest OS. I have a script that outputs some text that I would like in the clipboard that I can paste into an email in Windows Outlook. #!/bin/sh file=sig.txt f=hmmmm.txt n=`jot -r 1 1 791` echo > $file echo >> $file echo "--" >> $file echo "Thanks," >> $file echo "Charles" >> $file echo >> $file echo "Things that make you say, Hmmmmmm..." >> $file sed -n $n\p $f >> $file #"Copy $file to clipboard" #rm $file
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