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VIS-CLIPBOARD(1)	    General Commands Manual	      VIS-CLIPBOARD(1)

NAME
       vis-clipboard --	Read from or write to the system clipboard

SYNOPSIS
       vis-clipboard --usable

       vis-clipboard --copy [--selection selection]

       vis-clipboard --paste [--selection selection]

DESCRIPTION
       vis-clipboard  wraps various system-specific tools for interacting with
       a system	clipboard, like	xsel(1)	for X11, pbcopy(1) for Mac OS  X,  and
       /dev/clipboard on Cygwin.

       vis-clipboard  can  run	in three different ways, depending on the flag
       given on	the command-line.

       --usable
	     In	this mode, vis-clipboard looks for a way to interface with the
	     system clipboard.	If it finds one, it terminates with exit  code
	     0.	 If no interface to the	system clipboard is available, it ter-
	     minates with exit code 1.

       --copy
	     In	 this mode, vis-clipboard reads	the content of standard	input,
	     and stores	it in the system clipboard.

       --paste
	     In	this mode, vis-clipboard reads the content of the system clip-
	     board, and	writes it to standard output.

       --selection selection
	     specify which selection to	use, options are "primary"  or	"clip-
	     board". Silently ignored on platforms with	a single clipboard.

ENVIRONMENT
       The   following	 environment   variables   affect   the	 operation  of
       vis-clipboard:

       DISPLAY		If non-empty, vis-clipboard will prefer	to access  the
			X11 clipboard even if other options are	available.

EXIT STATUS
       The  vis-clipboard  utility  exits 0 on success,	and >0 if an error oc-
       curs.  When run with the	--usable flag, an exit status of 0 means  that
       it found	a supported system-specific tool, while	1 means	that clipboard
       access is not available.

EXAMPLES
       Test whether clipboard access is	available:

	     if	vis-clipboard --usable;	then
		     echo "Clipboard access available"
	     else
		     echo "No clipboard"
	     fi

       Copy a friendly greeting	to the clipboard:

	     echo "Hello, World" | vis-clipboard --copy

       Send  the  current  contents of the system clipboard to be recorded and
       analyzed:

	     vis-clipboard --paste | curl -d - https://www.nsa.gov/

SEE ALSO
       pbcopy(1), pbpaste(1), vis(1), xclip(1),	xsel(1)

Vis 0.9			       November	29, 2016	      VIS-CLIPBOARD(1)

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