xclip

[Thomas Adam]

On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:15:21AM -0600, Charles Howse wrote:
> Hi,
> I have need for a command-line tool to copy to the clipboard in FreeBSD 6.4.
> As in: command | xclip
> Looked at xclip and xclipboard - 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=xclip&stype=all
> 
> I can't tell by the dependencies if this requires the X gui.  I'm running
> command-line-only and DON'T want to install X.
> Can anyone help?  Thanks!

Yes it does require X, because it puts it in the PRIMARY_SELECTION.

What are you trying to do?

-- Thomas Adam

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