wl-clipboard: Wayland clipboard utilities
This project implements two command-line Wayland clipboard utilities, wl-copy
and wl-paste, that let you easily copy data between the clipboard and Unix
pipes, sockets, files and so on.
# Copy a simple text message:
$ wl-copy Hello world!
# Copy the list of files in ~/Downloads:
$ ls ~/Downloads | wl-copy
# Copy an image:
$ wl-copy < ~/Pictures/photo.png
# Copy the previous command:
$ wl-copy "!!"
# Paste to a file:
$ wl-paste > clipboard.txt
# Sort clipboard contents:
$ wl-paste | sort | wl-copy
# Upload clipboard contents to a pastebin on each change:
$ wl-paste --watch nc paste.example.org 5555
$ wl-copy Hello world!
# Copy the list of files in ~/Downloads:
$ ls ~/Downloads | wl-copy
# Copy an image:
$ wl-copy < ~/Pictures/photo.png
# Copy the previous command:
$ wl-copy "!!"
# Paste to a file:
$ wl-paste > clipboard.txt
# Sort clipboard contents:
$ wl-paste | sort | wl-copy
# Upload clipboard contents to a pastebin on each change:
$ wl-paste --watch nc paste.example.org 5555
Please see the wl-clipboard(1) man page for more details.
Installing
wl-clipboard is likely available in your favorite Linux or BSD distro. For building from source, see BUILDING.md.
License
wl-clipboard is free software, available under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
Related projects
- wl-clipboard-x11: A wrapper to use wl-clipboard as a drop-in replacement to X11 clipboard tools.
- wl-clipboard-rs: A Rust crate
(library) for working with the Wayland clipboard which includes a
reimplementation of
wl-copyandwl-paste.