XCLIP-COPYFILE

NAME

xclip-copyfile, xclip-cutfile, xclip-pastefile - copy and move files via the X clipboard

SYNOPSIS

xclip-copyfile [-p] FILES...

xclip-cutfile [-p] FILES...

xclip-pastefile

DESCRIPTION

xclip-copyfile copies files into the X clipboard, recursing into directories.

xclip-cutfile copies the files, but also deletes them afterwards.

-p

preserve path formation

xclip-pastefile pastes the files out of the clipboard

EXAMPLES

Copying a file to a remote host

[maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ˜]$ echo "A file created on ${HOSTNAME}" > file1
[maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ˜]$ xclip-copyfile file1
[sofie.homeip.net ˜/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
file1
[sofie.homeip.net ˜/doc]$ cat file1
A file created on maggie.lkpg.cendio.se

Copying an entire tree structure

[sofie.homeip.net ˜]$ xclip-copyfile doc
[maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ˜/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
doc/
doc/letter-mom-april.txt
doc/file1
doc/letter-dad-march.txt

Copying files with preserved path information

[maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ˜]$ xclip-copyfile -p /etc/sysconfig/grub
tar: Removing leading ‘/’ from member names
[sofie.homeip.net ˜/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
etc/sysconfig/grub
[sofie.homeip.net ˜/tmp]$ ls etc/sysconfig/grub
etc/sysconfig/grub

Moving files

[sofie.homeip.net ˜]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt
letter-brother-may.txt
[sofie.homeip.net ˜]$ xclip-cutfile letter-brother-may.txt
[sofie.homeip.net ˜]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt
ls: cannot access letter-brother-may.txt: No such file or directory
[sofie.homeip.net ˜]$ cd doc
[sofie.homeip.net ˜/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
letter-brother-may.txt

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Maximilian Gass <mxey@cloudconnected.org> for the Debian project. It may be used for everything else, of course.