xcut(8)xcut(8)NAMExcut - Manipulate X cut buffers from command line
SYNOPSISxcut [-display displayname] [-p]
DESCRIPTION
This is the manual page for xcut version 0.2.
Xcut takes the contents of standard input and store it into the X cut
and paste buffer. The data is then available for pasting into applica‐
tions which support cut and paste operations.
I was initially looking for something that would generate canned shell
commands and stick them in the X cut buffer so all the user needed to
do was do hit the middle mouse button in an xterm and the commands
would be executed. The original idea was to stick a short shell script
to insert a MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE entry in the .Xauthority file, but I´ve
found xcut useful for other things such as pasting the output of shell
commands into mail messages and so forth.
OPTIONS-display
Connect to the specified X host, display number and screen.
-p Paste contents of X cut buffer to standard output.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The DISPLAY environment variable is used for the name of the X display
to connect to if the -display command line option is not present.
SEE ALSOX(1)AUTHOR
Tim Potter, <tpot@acsys.anu.edu.au>
xcut 21 Sep 1999 xcut(8)
