Copying from clipboard into script

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Hi :slight_smile:

I assume (for this case) there is only text in the clipboard. How can I get access to what is saved in clipboard to use in script?

When I select some text and press the combination Ctrl-C → text is in clipboard. But where is this text stored in my OS and how I could use it, but not with keyboard (Ctrl-V). I want that what is in clipboard was copied into bash script (or Python maybe).

I’ve searched for clues and found something like xclip (stackoverflow pipe-to-from-the-clipboard-in-bash-script) but find / -name xclip throws nothing. So I don’t have xclip and Ctrl-C Ctrl-V combinations works fine what means that my OS have some way to work with copy/paste. Other searches point to urxvt (which am using) but there is no need to run terminal. I just want get what is inside clipboard register put into script to work with it and run it with some bindsym combination.

I hope you understand what I mean :slight_smile:

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The i3 edition uses clipit as a clipboard manager. The cliboard history can be found in the file ~/.local/share/clipit/history.

Maybe some of the suggestions here would help:

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echo "toto" | xclip
ls -l | xclip
...
# display content
xclip -out
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Are you sure you don’t have xclip installed? Try running xclip -version to see. If you have it then xclip -o should work in a script. Alternatively you could use clipit -c, assuming you have that installed, but how it works will depend on how you have clipit configured.

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[groot@dell:~]$ xclip -version
bash: xclip: command not found

I will try suggestion mentioned by @bill_t tomorrow.

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Huh, weird. It’s in the repositories, so you can just install it with pacman (or pamac or whatever), or you can go with clipit.

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The i3 edition uses clipit as a clipboard manager.

clipit is the answer i was looking for. Thank you @bill_t

I found one more problem with clipit. If it was launched via terminal it throws error
Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita"
but a little searching brings solution. There was need of

sudo pacman -S gnome-themes-standard

and problem disappears :slight_smile:

Now

clipit -c

gives me what i need :wink:

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