X-clipboard

Package: xsel
Description: More than just cat for the X selection.

XSel is a command-line program for getting and setting the contents of the X selection. Normally this is only accessible by manually highlighting information and pasting it with the middle mouse button.

Package: xclip
Description: command line interface to X selections

xclip is a command line utility that is designed to run on any system with an X11 implementation. It provides an interface to X selections ("the clipboard") from the command line. It can read data from standard in or a file and place it in an X selection for pasting into other X applications. xclip can also print an X selection to standard out, which can then be redirected to a file or another program.

Homepage: http://people.debian.org/~kims/xclip/[]

Copy your uptime into the selection for pasting:
uptime | xclip

Copy your password file for pasting:
xclip /etc/passwd

Save some text you have Edit | Copied in a web browser:
xclip -o -sel clip > webpage.txt

Open a URL selected in an email client
mozilla `xclip -o`

Copy XA_PRIMARY to XA_CLIPBOARD
xclip -o | xclip -sel clip

interchange between cut buffer and selection

Synopsis

xcutsel [ -toolkitoption ...] [-selection selection] [-cutbuffer number]

Description

The xcutsel program is used to copy the current selection into a cut buffer and to make a selection that contains the current contents of the cut buffer. It acts as a bridge between applications that don't support selections and those that do.

By default, xcutsel will use the selection named PRIMARY and the cut buffer CUT_BUFFER0. Either or both of these can be overridden by command line arguments or by resources.