wcopy,wpaste(1) wcopy,wpaste(1)NAMEwcopy - copy stdin to an X11 cut buffer wpaste - paste X11
cut buffer to stdout
SYNOPSISwcopy [ [0-9]... ] [wxcopy's normal args]
DESCRIPTIONwcopy reads from standard input and copies it to the nomi-
nated X11 cut buffers. The default is the first cut
buffer.
wpaste pastes the nominated X11 cut buffers(s) to standard
output. The default is the first cut buffer.
Note that the cut buffers are numbered starting from 0.
Simple integer arguments pick a cut-buffer.
For wcopy, the argument number picks a cut-buffer to copy
the standard input to. (Subsequent copies are taken from
the first nominated buffer - it does not try to re-read
the input!))
EXAMPLES
echo fred | wcopy 1 2
This puts the word "fred" into the 2nd and
3rd cut-buffers.
wpaste | tr A-Z a-z | wcopy 1
This copies the clipboard then translates
all upper case letters to lower in the 1st
cut buffer and copies the result into the
2nd.
wpaste 0 | fmt -w 66 | sed 's/^/> /' | wcopy 1
This reformats the clipboard to paragraphs
with lines no longer than 66 characters,
inserts typical email quoting characters,
and copies the output to the 2nd cut-
buffer.
wpaste | sed 's/^> *//' | wcopy
This removes email quotes from the start of
lines in the clipboard and replaces the
clipboard with the un-quoted material.
wpaste > ~/.myclipboard
Copies the clipboard into a location where
it can be pixked up from other computers
(e.g. even from a Windows machine) - as per
the file permissions you choose for the
".myclipboard" file.
ENVIRONMENT
If WXCOPY_DEFS or WXPASTE_DEFS are defined in your envi-
ronment, they will always be provided as the first argu-
ment(s) to the respective underlying command.
BUGS
Don't use "-cutbuffer N" notation as per wxcopy/wxpaste:
stick to just using the plain unadorned number(s) that
wcopy/wpaste expect.
SEE ALSOwxcopy(1), wxpaste(1), xcb(1)AUTHOR
Luke Kendall
04/09/01 wcopy,wpaste(1)
