Use of the (Desktop) Clipboard in the Command Line

clipcopy and clippaste

• When using a oh-my-zsh, the commands clipcopy and clippaste can be used to access the clipboard. These commands are platform-agnostic

xclip

• -o: paste to stdout
• Use -sel clip option to use the main clipboard. Defaults to middle-mouse-click temporary clipboard otherwise.
• Very useful when combined with pipes e.g. echo "test" | xclip -sel clip

clip.exe for WSL

• Copy into the Windows clipboard from WSL can be done by piping into clip.exe