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xclip-cutfile

NAME

xclip-copyfile, xclip-cutfile, xclip-pastefile - copy and move files via the X clipboard

SYNOPSIS

xclip-copyfile [-p] FILES...

xclip-cutfile [-p] FILES...

xclip-pastefile

DESCRIPTION

xclip-copyfile copies files into the X clipboard, recursing into directories.

xclip-cutfile copies the files, but also deletes them afterwards.

-p

preserve path formation

xclip-pastefile pastes the files out of the clipboard

EXAMPLES

Copying a file to a remote host

 [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ echo "A file created on ${HOSTNAME}" > file1
 [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ xclip-copyfile file1
 [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
 file1
 [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ cat file1
 A file created on maggie.lkpg.cendio.se
 
 
 Copying an entire tree structure
 
 [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ xclip-copyfile doc
 [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
 doc/
 doc/letter-mom-april.txt
 doc/file1
 doc/letter-dad-march.txt
 
 
 Copying files with preserved path information
 
 [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ xclip-copyfile -p /etc/sysconfig/grub
 tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
 [sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
 etc/sysconfig/grub
 [sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ ls etc/sysconfig/grub
 etc/sysconfig/grub
 
 
 Moving files
 
 [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt
 letter-brother-may.txt
 [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ xclip-cutfile letter-brother-may.txt
 [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt
 ls: cannot access letter-brother-may.txt: No such file or directory
 [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ cd doc
 [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
 letter-brother-may.txt
 
 

 

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Maximilian Gass <mxey@cloudconnected.org> for the Debian project. It may be used for everything else, of course.