[lug] pbcopy for Linux?

[Chip Atkinson]

xclip? 

Here's a discussion of it:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-December/030042.html

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Matt Thompson wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone on the list knew of a Linux equivalent to 
> pbcopy from OS X?:
> 
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pbcopy.1.html
> 
> I've been finding myself copy-and-pasting text files recently (CVs for 
> sites that want a text version), and thought if I could use pbcopy, this 
> would be a lot easier:
> 
> cat cv.txt | pbcopy
> 
> than using doing a less on the terminal and lots of scrolling, selecting 
> and middle pasting, or opening an editor and doing a "select all"...
> 
> Is there a similar "cbcopy" for Linux, or is the clipboard insanity of 
> Linux preventing this?
> 
> Matt
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