How to redirect the command line output to the clipboard

[Kejing]

Sometimes, I would like to post some topics on the forum, and the contents of the topics come from the output the command line output.

Usually, I would run the command, and copy the output to the clipboard and then paste it here. I think it is a efficient less way to do the job and I am looking for if Bash has such kind of the feature.

[matthew.ball]

Edit: Upon further investigation, xclip might be what you are after!
I found this link: http://elcasey.wordpress.com/2008/02...-command-line/ which to me, sounds like what you're after.

[adamlau]

If you happen to use Thunar/Nautilus, here is the appropriate action using xclip:

echo -n %F | xclip -selection "clipboard"

[Kejing]

It seems to be quite strange. According to the man page, I followed the example in the man page:

uptime | xclip

the redirected content went to the clipboard, if I want to use it in the X application, I just simply press the middle button of the mouse.

While I tried your solution
uptime | xclip -selection "clipboard"

when I right clicked the mouse, the "paste" function in the pop-up menu is useless.

puzzled, anyway, it solved my problem, thanks a lot