Redirecting Output Into The Copy Buffer

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jul 12), Jason Dusek said:
> Most of the time, when I click the third mouse button something gets
> pasted wherever my cursor is. Presumably it gets pasted from some
> buffer somewhere, let's call it the X buffer or buffer X. Is there
> some way to redirect the output of a terminal command into the X
> buffer? Then I can run something like this:
> 
>   5 # dmesg > [wherever the X buffer is]

Take a look at the x11/xclip port; I think it does what you want.

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	Dan Nelson
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