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xcut(8) 								 xcut(8)

NAME
     xcut - Manipulate X cut buffers from command line

SYNOPSIS
     xcut [-display displayname] [-p]

DESCRIPTION
     This is the manual page for xcut version 0.2.

     Xcut  takes  the contents of standard input and store it into the X cut and
     paste buffer.  The data is then available	for  pasting  into  applications
     which support cut and paste operations.

     I was initially looking for something that would generate canned shell com-
     mands  and  stick them in the X cut buffer so all the user needed to do was
     do hit the middle mouse button in an xterm and the commands would	be  exe-
     cuted. The original idea was to stick a short shell script to insert a MIT-
     MAGIC-COOKIE  entry in the .Xauthority file, but I've found xcut useful for
     other things such as pasting the output of shell commands	into  mail  mes-
     sages and so forth.

OPTIONS
     -display
	    Connect to the specified X host, display number and screen.

     -p     Paste contents of X cut buffer to standard output.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     The  DISPLAY  environment variable is used for the name of the X display to
     connect to if the -display command line option is not present.

SEE ALSO
     X(1)

AUTHOR
     Tim Potter, <tpot@acsys.anu.edu.au>

xcut				   21 Sep 1999				 xcut(8)

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