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Paste from the linux/unix command line into graphical applications

If you've got a large file on the command line, a large CSV file or whatever, you may want to paste that into a graphical application, like Firefox, via the clipboard.

If you install xclip you can do this easily.

cat somelargefile.txt | xclip --selection clipboard

The --selection clipboard saves it to the paste buffer you use in graphical applications. There are others available.

unix unix-paste xclip

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