xclip

Charles Howse chowse at charter.net
Fri Jan 1 15:33:59 UTC 2010


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Charles Howse
> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 9:15 AM
> To: 'FreeBSD-Questions'
> Subject: xclip
> 
> 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!
> 
> --
> Later,
> Charles

Sorry to reply to my own post, but I remembered to look in
ports/X11/xclip/pkg-descr and found that xclip and possible xclipboard
require X11.  
Sorry for not doing that before I posted.
So, is there a non-X11 port that will let me do what I need to do?  Does
Midnight Commander have a clipboard?



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