Copy Image to Clipboard from Bash

Question

Suppose I have an image on the desktop,

    $ ls
    1.png

I'd like to copy it to the clipboard,and tried

    $ pbcopy 1.png

    ^C

I should terminate the process manually.

How to copy image to clipboard, so I can paste them around?

Possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6919403/set-clipboard-to-image-pbcopy — jsageryd, Apr 02 '18 at 12:49

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 02 '18 at 12:44

1

Install xclip

sudo apt-get install xclip

Use -t to specify format

xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -i 1.png

answered Apr 02 '18 at 12:44

Flo

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