xclip-copyfile.1

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.TH XCLIP-COPYFILE 1
.SH NAME
xclip\-copyfile, xclip\-cutfile, xclip\-pastefile - copy and move files via the X clipboard
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B xclip\-copyfile
[\-p] FILES...

.B xclip\-cutfile
[\-p] FILES...

.B xclip\-pastefile
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B xclip\-copyfile
copies files into the X clipboard, recursing into directories.

.B xclip\-cutfile
copies the files, but also deletes them afterwards.
.TP
\fB\-p\fR
preserve path formation

.PP
.B xclip\-pastefile
pastes the files out of the clipboard
.SH EXAMPLES

.B Copying a file to a remote host

.nf
[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


.B Copying an entire tree structure

.nf
[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


.B Copying files with preserved path information

.nf
[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


.B Moving files

.nf
[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

.SH AUTHORS

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