Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

That's a good idea. However, rather than /dev/X all you need is an X program which
would read from standard input and put whatever it gets there onto the clipboard. Now
that you mention this I'm surprised someone hasn't done it.

Jim Foltz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> There are times when I need to cut and paste the output from a command
> line program into a graphical program. The problem occurs when the output
> is more than one screen long. I just thought it would be quite nice to
> be able to redirect the output into /dev/clipboard, then switch to the
> graphical program and use the mouse to paste it from /dev/clipboard to
> where I need it.
>
> Is there a mechanism already in place to handle this?
>
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