wcopy,wpaste(1) wcopy,wpaste(1)NAMEwcopy - copy stdin to an X11 cut buffer wpaste - paste X11 cut buffer
to stdout
SYNOPSISwcopy [ [0-9]... ] [wxcopy's normal args]
DESCRIPTIONwcopy reads from standard input and copies it to the nominated X11 cut
buffers. The default is the first cut buffer.
wpaste pastes the nominated X11 cut buffers(s) to standard output. The
default is the first cut buffer.
Note that the cut buffers are numbered starting from 0.
Simple integer arguments pick a cut-buffer.
For wcopy, the argument number picks a cut-buffer to copy the standard
input to. (Subsequent copies are taken from the first nominated buffer
- it does not try to re-read the input!))
EXAMPLES
echo fred | wcopy 1 2
This puts the word "fred" into the 2nd and 3rd cut-buf‐
fers.
wpaste | tr A-Z a-z | wcopy 1
This copies the clipboard then translates all upper case
letters to lower in the 1st cut buffer and copies the
result into the 2nd.
wpaste 0 | fmt -w 66 | sed 's/^/> /' | wcopy 1
This reformats the clipboard to paragraphs with lines no
longer than 66 characters, inserts typical email quoting
characters, and copies the output to the 2nd cut-buffer.
wpaste | sed 's/^> *//' | wcopy
This removes email quotes from the start of lines in the
clipboard and replaces the clipboard with the un-quoted
material.
wpaste > ~/.myclipboard
Copies the clipboard into a location where it can be
pixked up from other computers (e.g. even from a Windows
machine) - as per the file permissions you choose for
the ".myclipboard" file.
ENVIRONMENT
If WXCOPY_DEFS or WXPASTE_DEFS are defined in your environment, they
will always be provided as the first argument(s) to the respective
underlying command.
BUGS
Don't use "-cutbuffer N" notation as per wxcopy/wxpaste: stick to just
using the plain unadorned number(s) that wcopy/wpaste expect.
SEE ALSOwxcopy(1), wxpaste(1), xcb(1)AUTHOR
Luke Kendall
4th Berkeley Distribution 04/09/01 wcopy,wpaste(1)
