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KDE cli clipboard

$ cat /usr/local/bin/c

#!/bin/sh
if test -n "$1"; then
	STDIN="${1}"
elif test ! -t 0; then
	STDIN=$(cat)
else
	echo 'Usage:'
	echo '	c < /path/to/file'
	echo '	c text-to-be-copied'
	echo '	command | c'
	exit 1
fi

qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper setClipboardContents "$STDIN"

$ cat /usr/local/bin/v

#!/bin/sh
qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper getClipboardContents

This is what I like to use :)

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4 comments

  • I didn't get it. What does it do?

    • It's two tools: c and v for copy and paste respectively.

      Say you want to copy an output of a command, say

      grep -i 'abc' file.txt | sed 's/b/d/'

      then you can easily add | c to the end to get:

      grep -i 'abc' file.txt | sed 's/b/d/' | c

      and this will copy to clipboard, specifically for KDE's clipboard manager, Klipper. If you wanted to see the help text for more ways to copy, you'd run c on its own

      The benefit is the tool won't break between x11 and wayland, but the downsides are that it's tied to klipper, and you cant see more clipboard metadata, like mimetypes

      If you only use wayland, i'd recommend using wl-clipboard, and alias c=wl-copy and alias v=wl-paste it's a better tool, imo.

      Should you still want to use my lil snippet, you will need to create these files yourself, i suggest either in your $HOME/.local/bin/ or /usr/local/bin/. And don't forget to chmod +x them so they are executable.

      Happy experimenting :)