Man1 - xclip-copyfile.1

xclip-copyfile, xclip-cutfile, xclip-pastefile - copy and move files via the X clipboard

xclip-copyfile [-p] FILES…

xclip-cutfile [-p] FILES…

xclip-pastefile

xclip-copyfile copies files into the X clipboard, recursing into directories.

xclip-cutfile copies the files, but also deletes them afterwards.

-p

preserve path formation

xclip-pastefile pastes the files out of the clipboard

Copying a file to a remote host

  [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ echo "A file created on ${HOSTNAME}" > file1
  [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ xclip-copyfile file1
  [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
  file1
  [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ cat file1
  A file created on maggie.lkpg.cendio.se


  Copying an entire tree structure

  [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ xclip-copyfile doc
  [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
  doc/
  doc/letter-mom-april.txt
  doc/file1
  doc/letter-dad-march.txt


  Copying files with preserved path information

  [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ xclip-copyfile -p /etc/sysconfig/grub
  tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
  [sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
  etc/sysconfig/grub
  [sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ ls etc/sysconfig/grub
  etc/sysconfig/grub


  Moving files

  [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt
  letter-brother-may.txt
  [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ xclip-cutfile letter-brother-may.txt
  [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt
  ls: cannot access letter-brother-may.txt: No such file or directory
  [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ cd doc
  [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
  letter-brother-may.txt

This manual page was written by Maximilian Gass <mxey@cloudconnected.org> for the Debian project. It may be used for everything else, of course.