Copy Terminal Output For GUI Pasting

Asked Jun 03 '20 at 02:19

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I'm trying to redirect output from the terminal to a file (or variable) so I can then paste the content to a GUI program. Like so:

$ echo "Text to be pasted" >> /path/to/file

And then paste with Ctrl+V in a browser.

Which file or variable is that in a Linux system?

edited Jun 03 '20 at 02:23

Penny Liu

asked Jun 03 '20 at 02:19

Dylan Conklin

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/749544/pipe-to-from-the-clipboard-in-bash-script – Robert Jun 03 '20 at 02:44
Perfect! Thank you. – Dylan Conklin Jun 03 '20 at 02:59
Yes it does, thank you. – Dylan Conklin Jun 03 '20 at 20:47

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