cclip

the console clipboard

What is cclip ?

You surely already got stuck in a tty needing to copy & paste something, but there's no clipboard in ttys; cclip is a kinda clipboard that works with tty as well as with graphical environments (needs a CLI).

How to install cclip ?

cclip is just a bash script, therefore you only need to download it and make it executable : (you'll surely need to do these actions as root, just preceed all the commands with sudo)

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lapingenieur/cclip/master/cclip -O /usr/local/bin/cclip -nv
chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/cclip

Usage

To copy from stdin (standard in)

<your command> | cclip

This will redirect <your command>'s output into cclip's clipboard.

To print the content of the clipboard

cclip -o

This will print out value stored in cclip's clipboard. You can add redirection/piping to use it elsewhere:

cclip -o | <your command>
cclip -o >> <your file>

This will pipe (give) the stored value to <your command> or output its content to <your file> (at the end of file, look at bash redirection for more infos)

To copy a given string

cclip -s <your string>

This will save <your string> in cclip's clipboard.

To delete/reset the clipboard's content

cclip -d

This will reset the cclip clipboard to be void (to contain "") (this doesn't delete the file)

Files

cclip itself needs to be in a directory part of the $PATH variable (as every program should). It stores its clipboard in /tmp/cclip. As this file is in /tmp :

• every user can access it
• it is deleted at every reboot
• it is stored by default in the ram (tmp is usually mounted as a ramfs partition)

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For more infos about cclip execute cclip --help in the shell (once installed).

The source code is open source and hosted over my github page. It is readable/editable/redistributable. Feel free to suggest modifications and open pull requests !

Written by lapingenieur using neovim (<= best editor! :D) Hosted over github Contact: [email protected]