[Cialug] cat-like command

Todd Walton tdwalton at gmail.com
Sat Dec 19 22:03:22 CST 2009


On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a command something like cat that will copy a
> file into the copy/paste buffer, so I can paste the contents
> somewhere after running the command?

Like this? :
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/565

This says to use xclip.  Though it looks like it wouldn't copy a file
qua file, but rather the contents of the file, which is almost the
same thing.

--
Todd


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