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Re: bug#8247: How to write an application
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Eric Blake |
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Re: bug#8247: How to write an application |
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Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:41:36 -0600 |
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On 03/14/2011 12:31 PM, alfred inacio wrote:
> Hi Eric,
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> Thanks for your help here. I know exactly what I want, a very simple
> application which copies the output into the clipboard... for example, say
> my program is called bordpst... then if I did this:
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> pwd > bordpst
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> then, I went into my GUI and pressed ctrl + v, I would paste the directly I
> was in from above. I couldn't find anything like this. Maybe I didn't look
> hard enough?
Sounds like you want to reinvent xclip.
pwd | xclip
then you can ctrl-v that output into anything that understands how to
read the X clipboard. But that's a much more complex program than one
of the GNU Coreutils, since it involves interactions with X11 code.
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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