On 01:36 Mon 26 Jan , Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/26/2009 01:28 AM, Mitchell Laks wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am curious. Lets say I highlight some text, in a document and >> it "gets sent to the clipboard". (xclipboard seems to be a client >> not the clipboard itself). > > Have you tried parcellite/glipper/klipper, xclip or xsel?
Exactly! xclip is perfect!!!!! http://aarklonlinuxinfo.blogspot.com/2008/11/copy-shell-prompt-output-to-linux-unix.html xclip - Linux / UNIX Command line clipboard grabber Copy output of the following command to clipboard: $ sort -n -k 3, -k 2 file.txt | xclip Send data.txt contains to the clipboard, enter: $ cat data.txt | xclip Put the contents of the selection into a file. $ xclip -o > file.txt > >> Is there a way to capture that data directly, without middle >> click into a text destination, so that I can then manipulate that >> data with a program, perhaps tied to a hotkey sequence. >> >> Here is a use case. >> >> I have a big document that I will want to do a regexp >> manipulation on and then paste. > ? > > Meaning that you don't want to save the changes in the original > document? Yes Exactly! > >> Can I do that in one step by >> binding to a hotkey sequence? > > One step instead of *two* steps? of course!! I want to grab stuff while I am surfing net and dont want to open a file to copy it to. I can set up a hotkey to xclip -o -> massage data -> pipe it to xclip massage data with a perl script and then cat codified data| xclip -o and I have modified data in clipboard and then paste modified data where I want. Perl - the language for those who are "lazy impatient and have hubris" :) Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
