How do I copy to clipboard text I cut with Ctrl+U?

Asked Feb 09 '18 at 22:34

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In an interactive shell session, how do I copy to clipboard text that was cut with Ctrl+U? Without using the mouse, obviously. Thus making it available for other GUI applications, instead of pastable only with Ctrl+Y only in the terminal where the Ctrl+U was issued.

Update: added bash tag to cover answers involving bash-only solutions.

edited Feb 10 '18 at 09:05

asked Feb 09 '18 at 22:34

argle

You get your binding to run `xclip` or similar. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Feb 09 '18 at 22:35
`^Y` does not remove text; it yanks what was last killed and "pastes" it. Did you mean `^W`, `^U`, `^K`, `M-D`, and the like? – DopeGhoti Feb 09 '18 at 22:40
Thanks, DopeGhoti. That was a strange mistake. I updated my post. – argle Feb 10 '18 at 08:57
I don't think readline has that capacity. Bash does. Do you want this in bash or in some other program? – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Feb 10 '18 at 09:02
@Gilles Bash is absolutely fine. – argle Feb 10 '18 at 09:03
@Gilles Any idea why `if [[ -n $DISPLAY ]]; then copy_line_to_x_clipboard() { printf %s "$READLINE_LINE" | xsel -ib; }; bind -x '"\C-u": copy_line_to_x_clipboard'; fi` doesn't work? – argle Feb 10 '18 at 22:49
Turns out that stty settings have precedence over bindings, so you need to do `stty kill ''` before `bind -x "\C-u": …`. This could warrant a question of its own if it isn't a duplicate. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Feb 11 '18 at 19:01
@Gilles Did you see https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/423375/how-do-i-share-the-mouse-cut-paste-buffer-not-the-clipboard-between-bash-and-x ? – argle Feb 11 '18 at 21:42

How do I copy to clipboard text I cut with Ctrl+U?

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