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One of my most-used X utilities is not even really a graphical one.

xclip allows putting stuff in the X clipboard for subsequent pasting into any application. I use it to “copy” canned email responses which I keep in a folder as .txt files and then paste them in the browser for sending by email. No need to bother with browser extensions or built-in crappy functionality (gmail canned responses used to just lose my responses every once in a while).

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I make frequent use of xcip as well, with an alias to `xclip -selection clipboard`, which puts its stdin into the clipboard for convenient pasting into GUI programs such as browsers.

Same here. In bashrc:

    alias clip='xclip -selection clipboard'

Then you can do things like:

    cat foo.txt | clip

To copy the file into your clipboard.

Inspired by MacOS pbcopy:

    alias xpaste='xclip -out -sel clipboard'
    alias xcopy='xclip -in -sel clipboard'

MacOS has pbcopy which serves the same function and is an amazingly useful way to work.

I use xsel for the same purpose. And clip.exe on Windows/WSL.

Set-Clipboard in PowerShell works as well, if you're in to that sort of thing.

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