I need to make a list of some links on a web-page. I've been using right-click copy link URL
and then pasting it (Menu_Edit->Paste) into vim
running in xterm
— then repeating. This is obviously a rather cumbersome approach, and surely there must be a better way. (The pasting goes fine, so I guess the links are stored as ascii-text.)
So is there a way to automatically "record" each copy link URL
(onto the clipboard) to a file – Ie. copying each change in the clipboard to a file? Is there a program that can do this, or perhaps some hidden file (eg. a named pipe) from which I could read the clipboard content?
I see there are some "clipboard managers"… are any of them suited to do something like this? (which one? how?)
I'm using LinuxMint MATE.
Best Answer
You could do something like:
xclip -o -sel c
dumps the content of theCLIPBOARD
selection.xclip -i -quiet -sel c
claims ownership of theCLIPBOARD
selection (and makes it empty) until something else claims it again. If you have a clipboard manager running, you may want to disable it as it would probably interfere.