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Date:      Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:25:51 +0000
From:      Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com>
To:        Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net>
Cc:        'FreeBSD-Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: xclip
Message-ID:  <20100101152549.GA2220@debian>
In-Reply-To: <000401ca8af5$3d7a3440$b86e9cc0$@net>
References:  <000401ca8af5$3d7a3440$b86e9cc0$@net>

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On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:15:21AM -0600, Charles Howse wrote:
> Hi,
> I have need for a command-line tool to copy to the clipboard in FreeBSD 6.4.
> As in: command | xclip
> Looked at xclip and xclipboard - 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=xclip&stype=all
> 
> I can't tell by the dependencies if this requires the X gui.  I'm running
> command-line-only and DON'T want to install X.
> Can anyone help?  Thanks!

Yes it does require X, because it puts it in the PRIMARY_SELECTION.

What are you trying to do?

-- Thomas Adam

-- 
"It was the cruelest game I've ever played and it's played inside my head."
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