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$ cat /usr/local/bin/c

#!/bin/sh
if test -n "$1"; then
	STDIN="${1}"
elif test ! -t 0; then
	STDIN=$(cat)
else
	echo 'Usage:'
	echo '	c < /path/to/file'
	echo '	c text-to-be-copied'
	echo '	command | c'
	exit 1
fi

qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper setClipboardContents "$STDIN"

$ cat /usr/local/bin/v

#!/bin/sh
qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper getClipboardContents

This is what I like to use :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I didn't get it. What does it do?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

It's two tools: c and v for copy and paste respectively.

Say you want to copy an output of a command, say

grep -i 'abc' file.txt | sed 's/b/d/'

then you can easily add | c to the end to get:

grep -i 'abc' file.txt | sed 's/b/d/' | c

and this will copy to clipboard, specifically for KDE's clipboard manager, Klipper. If you wanted to see the help text for more ways to copy, you'd run c on its own

The benefit is the tool won't break between x11 and wayland, but the downsides are that it's tied to klipper, and you cant see more clipboard metadata, like mimetypes

If you only use wayland, i'd recommend using wl-clipboard, and alias c=wl-copy and alias v=wl-paste it's a better tool, imo.

Should you still want to use my lil snippet, you will need to create these files yourself, i suggest either in your $HOME/.local/bin/ or /usr/local/bin/. And don't forget to chmod +x them so they are executable.

Happy experimenting :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you so much! You are so kind!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Aw thanks! I'm glad I was able to help :)