--On Sunday, December 21, 2003 20:50:22 -0500 Scott W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey all..was wondering if anyone knew of a utlity to copy the contents of a text file into an X clipboard buffer?
It's possible via the use of xmessage or any other X editor that allows
you to select all text, but something command line only would be useful...
I'm sure something exists somewhere, but I'm not having any luck as of
yet...anyone?
Have you tried /usr/ports/x11/xclip ?
-Pat
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Actually, no...it hadn't been installed, so I did so. I just tried it, but it appears to have a buffer size limitation, or I may be using it wrong:
xclip -i /home/wegster/bsd/freeBSDInstall.txt
completes, but then doesn't seem to have filled the X clipboard buffer, as pasting into an open text file produces no output.
xclip -i Makefile (using xclips Makefile) does work as advertised,
while cat /home/wegster/bsd/freeBSDInstall.txt | xclip doesn't produce any output,
but
cat Makefile | xclip
works....so looks like a non-dynamic buffer being used. If anyone has any ideas (cmd params I'm missing) I'd appreciate it, otherwise I'll dig into the source and see what it's doing with respect to buffer allocation.
Thanks, (definately closer than I was )
Scott
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