Copy file to xclip and paste to Firefox
X11 has several available clipboards. By default, xclip
places data in the primary selection buffer. To paste it, you use middle-click.
If you want to use Ctrl+v, use xclip -selection clipboard
. See man xclip
for more information.
There is good information about the different clipboards on freedesktop.org.
Copy to your clipboard with:
xclip -sel clip < ~/path/to/file.txt
and then paste CTRL + V wherever you wish to.
Add this to to your ~/.bashrc
# now `cclip' can be used when you it to be available to `ctrl-[vxc]'
alias cclip='xclip -selection clipboard'
alternatively, run this:
echo 'alias cclip='"'"'xclip -selection clipboard'"'" >> ~/.bashrc