shell script output to clipboard

Question

is there any easy way to implement the copy to clipboard option from the output of a shell script ?

Answer 1

Use Xclip

Answer 2

You can use the xclip command.

 echo hello | xclip

Instructions for obtaining xclip are here.

Answer 3

That may depend on the environment you're using. With Gnome at least (I haven't tried the others but it may work), you can pipe your output as follows:

echo 123 | xclip
echo 123 | xclip -sel clip

The first goes to the mouse clipboard, the second to the "normal" clipboard.