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Sometimes we feel unhappy to copy and paste the contents repeatedly. Clipboard utilities helps you to get rid from this task. Its very useful to the users those who are using terminal and text editors, especially the power users ( Linux/Unix Administrators ) of linux. The clipboard utilities allows you to store all the copied contents and you can reuse it in future. This guide helps you how to install the clipboard utilities and how to use it. Here I am using ubuntu linux.
The most popular clipboard utilities are Parcellite and Glipper. Both are having its own features. I will explain one by one here
Parcellite
Parcellite is a lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager. This is a stripped down, basic-features-only clipboard manager with a small memory footprint for those who like simplicity. Parcellite features a clipboard CLI. Unrecognized options and the contents of your standard input get copied to your clipboard.
Install Parcellite : How to install parcellite on ubuntu / How to install parcellite on centos / How to install parcellite on OpenSUSE
Command : parcellite [OPTION]
Options :
?, –help - Show help options
-d, –daemon - Run as daemon. Use this mode if you just want Parcellite to keep your clipboard and primary contents safe
-n, –no-icon - Do not use status icon
-c, –clipbard - Print clipboard contents
-p, –primary - Print primary contents
CLI Examples :
echo “copied to clipboard” | parcellite
parcellite “copied to clipboard”
echo “copied to clipboard” | parcellite -o
Glipper / Klipper
Glipper is a good clipboard manager for Gnome. It has some of the advantages of KDE’s popular Klipper but runs natively on Gnome desktop. Glipper keeps your selections history for you and lets you choose from a list of recent selections.
Install Glipper : How to install Glipper on ubuntu / How to install Glipper on OpenSUSE / How to install Glipper on CentOS
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