Today's unix "how did I live without this before" find is xclip, which I was inspired to find after reading this page of Mac OS X customization tips, which details the pbpaste command.
Basically, xclip allows you to interact with the xclipboard via the command line. So, if you want a directory listing in your clipboard, you can just do:
ls -l | xclip
Similarly, you can echo the current contents of the clipboard with
xclip -o, which I've aliased to xpaste.
Currently listening to: Tool - (-) Ions.
Posted by Bill Stilwell at September 15, 2002 08:58 PM