* substitute for xclip?
@ 2022-10-19 6:58 Ulli Horlacher
2022-10-19 7:44 ` Sam Edge
2022-10-19 9:01 ` Backwoods BC
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From: Ulli Horlacher @ 2022-10-19 6:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
With Linux I am using xclip to read the X11 clipboard.
Is there a cygwin equivalent to read the Windows clipboard?
My use case is:
The user copies file names to the clipboard and then starts a program
which processes these files.
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Universitaet Stuttgart E-Mail: horlacher@tik.uni-stuttgart.de
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* Re: substitute for xclip?
2022-10-19 6:58 substitute for xclip? Ulli Horlacher
@ 2022-10-19 7:44 ` Sam Edge
2022-10-19 7:54 ` Sam Edge
2022-10-19 9:01 ` Backwoods BC
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From: Sam Edge @ 2022-10-19 7:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Hi there.
In the absence of a Cygwin-native utility, how about?
x="$(powershell -command Get-Clipboard)"
You can pipe to the Windows 'clip' utility to go the other way or use
'powershell -command Set-Clipboard'.
But I agree, a Cygwin utility would be nice, unless there already is one?
--
Sam Edge
On 19/10/2022 07:58, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> With Linux I am using xclip to read the X11 clipboard.
> Is there a cygwin equivalent to read the Windows clipboard?
>
> My use case is:
> The user copies file names to the clipboard and then starts a program
> which processes these files.
>
>
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* Re: substitute for xclip?
2022-10-19 7:44 ` Sam Edge
@ 2022-10-19 7:54 ` Sam Edge
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From: Sam Edge @ 2022-10-19 7:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
H again.
Or you can use:-
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s lastpipe
powershell -command Get-Clipboard | mapfile array_variable
for multiline.
--
Sam Edge
On 19/10/2022 08:44, Sam Edge wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> In the absence of a Cygwin-native utility, how about?
>
> x="$(powershell -command Get-Clipboard)"
>
> You can pipe to the Windows 'clip' utility to go the other way or use
> 'powershell -command Set-Clipboard'.
>
> But I agree, a Cygwin utility would be nice, unless there already is one?
>
> --
> Sam Edge
>
> On 19/10/2022 07:58, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
>> With Linux I am using xclip to read the X11 clipboard.
>> Is there a cygwin equivalent to read the Windows clipboard?
>>
>> My use case is:
>> The user copies file names to the clipboard and then starts a program
>> which processes these files.
>>
>>
>
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* Re: substitute for xclip?
2022-10-19 6:58 substitute for xclip? Ulli Horlacher
2022-10-19 7:44 ` Sam Edge
@ 2022-10-19 9:01 ` Backwoods BC
2022-10-19 11:56 ` Sam Edge
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From: Backwoods BC @ 2022-10-19 9:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:59 PM Ulli Horlacher
<framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>
> With Linux I am using xclip to read the X11 clipboard.
> Is there a cygwin equivalent to read the Windows clipboard?
There are 2 ways to access the clipboard:
1. The commands 'getclip' and 'putclip'
2. Redirection to/from /dev/clipboard
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* Re: substitute for xclip?
2022-10-19 9:01 ` Backwoods BC
@ 2022-10-19 11:56 ` Sam Edge
2022-10-19 12:58 ` Ulli Horlacher
2022-10-20 3:23 ` Thomas Wolff
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From: Sam Edge @ 2022-10-19 11:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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On 19/10/2022 10:01, Backwoods BC wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:59 PM Ulli Horlacher
> <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>>
>> With Linux I am using xclip to read the X11 clipboard.
>> Is there a cygwin equivalent to read the Windows clipboard?
>
> There are 2 ways to access the clipboard:
> 1. The commands 'getclip' and 'putclip'
> 2. Redirection to/from /dev/clipboard
>
Eek. I knew that. I use them all the time.
Apologies for the bad steer ... and for top-posting!
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Sam Edge
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* Re: substitute for xclip?
2022-10-19 9:01 ` Backwoods BC
2022-10-19 11:56 ` Sam Edge
@ 2022-10-19 12:58 ` Ulli Horlacher
2022-10-19 22:52 ` Oliver Schoede
2022-10-20 3:23 ` Thomas Wolff
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From: Ulli Horlacher @ 2022-10-19 12:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On Wed 2022-10-19 (02:01), Backwoods BC wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:59 PM Ulli Horlacher
> <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>
> >
> > With Linux I am using xclip to read the X11 clipboard.
> > Is there a cygwin equivalent to read the Windows clipboard?
>
> There are 2 ways to access the clipboard:
> 1. The commands 'getclip' and 'putclip'
W10dev:~: getclip
bash: getclip: command not found
I found getclip in package cygutils-extra.
> 2. Redirection to/from /dev/clipboard
https://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fop/jFZ6T7wI/X-20221019141237.png
I have selected [copy] in the file browser, but /dev/clipboard is empty.
Also getclip gives me no output.
--
Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung
Rechenzentrum TIK
Universitaet Stuttgart E-Mail: horlacher@tik.uni-stuttgart.de
Allmandring 30a Tel: ++49-711-68565868
70569 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/
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* Re: substitute for xclip?
2022-10-19 12:58 ` Ulli Horlacher
@ 2022-10-19 22:52 ` Oliver Schoede
2022-10-20 7:27 ` Sam Edge
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From: Oliver Schoede @ 2022-10-19 22:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Hi!
On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:58:42 +0200
Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>
>https://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fop/jFZ6T7wI/X-20221019141237.png
>
>I have selected [copy] in the file browser, but /dev/clipboard is
>empty. Also getclip gives me no output.
>
It looks to me like you copied the file, not the file name?
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* Re: substitute for xclip?
2022-10-19 9:01 ` Backwoods BC
2022-10-19 11:56 ` Sam Edge
2022-10-19 12:58 ` Ulli Horlacher
@ 2022-10-20 3:23 ` Thomas Wolff
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From: Thomas Wolff @ 2022-10-20 3:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Am 19.10.2022 um 11:01 schrieb Backwoods BC:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:59 PM Ulli Horlacher
> <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>> With Linux I am using xclip to read the X11 clipboard.
>> Is there a cygwin equivalent to read the Windows clipboard?
> There are 2 ways to access the clipboard:
> 1. The commands 'getclip' and 'putclip'
> 2. Redirection to/from /dev/clipboard
>
There is also xsel and xclip; both need a running X server.
Note that *clip, xsel and xclip do not adapt character encoding, should
you wish to transfer text between terminals of different
encoding/locale. /dev/clipboard applies transparent character encoding
conversion (as does the powershell trick).
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* Re: substitute for xclip?
2022-10-19 22:52 ` Oliver Schoede
@ 2022-10-20 7:27 ` Sam Edge
2022-10-20 8:12 ` Backwoods BC
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From: Sam Edge @ 2022-10-20 7:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 19/10/2022 23:52, Oliver Schoede wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:58:42 +0200
> Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>> https://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fop/jFZ6T7wI/X-20221019141237.png
>>
>> I have selected [copy] in the file browser, but /dev/clipboard is
>> empty. Also getclip gives me no output.
>>
>
> It looks to me like you copied the file, not the file name?
>
To clarify the above, Windows has a non-text clipboard data type when
'copying' a file in the File Explorer which encodes additional
information other than its path. This is to allow the equivalent 'paste'
function in Explorer and other file-accepting GUI applications to work
more intelligently. Unfortunately, Cygwin's /dev/clipboard and
get/putclip only process text formats.
I imagine your X file manager is simply copying a textual representation
of the file path to the clipboard when you choose 'copy' which of course
can be extracted by scripts etc. It appears that Windows Explorer
doesn't also place a textual representation onto the clipboard (the
Windows clipboard allows multiple representations to exist
simultaneously) which is what would be required for Cygwin to use it at
present.
--
Sam Edge
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* Re: substitute for xclip?
2022-10-20 7:27 ` Sam Edge
@ 2022-10-20 8:12 ` Backwoods BC
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From: Backwoods BC @ 2022-10-20 8:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 12:27 AM Sam Edge <sam.edge.cygwin@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 19/10/2022 23:52, Oliver Schoede wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:58:42 +0200
> > Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> >> https://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fop/jFZ6T7wI/X-20221019141237.png
> >>
> >> I have selected [copy] in the file browser, but /dev/clipboard is
> >> empty. Also getclip gives me no output.
> >>
> >
> > It looks to me like you copied the file, not the file name?
> >
> To clarify the above, Windows has a non-text clipboard data type when
> 'copying' a file in the File Explorer which encodes additional
> information other than its path. This is to allow the equivalent 'paste'
> function in Explorer and other file-accepting GUI applications to work
> more intelligently. Unfortunately, Cygwin's /dev/clipboard and
> get/putclip only process text formats.
>
> I imagine your X file manager is simply copying a textual representation
> of the file path to the clipboard when you choose 'copy' which of course
> can be extracted by scripts etc. It appears that Windows Explorer
> doesn't also place a textual representation onto the clipboard (the
> Windows clipboard allows multiple representations to exist
> simultaneously) which is what would be required for Cygwin to use it at
> present.
>
> --
> Sam Edge
You can force Windows Explorer to copy the path by doing
SHIFT-RightClick on the filename and selecting "Copy as path."
The next hurdle that you'll run into is that the clipboard contents
will be in Windows/DOS format (c:\folder\filename) while Cygwin will
most often expect it in *nix format (cygdrive/c/folder.filename).
'cygpath' is your friend. Sometimes (not clear exactly when) Cygwin
will accept the Windows path, but I always convert it to *nix format
to avoid unpleasant surprises later.
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