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Often I'd like the command I just typed to put into the clipboard, and I'd like to do it from the command line.

I came up with:

alias cl="fc -ln -1 | sed 's/^\s*//' | xsel -b"

To alias cl to that pipeline which seems to achieve the desired effect, but it seems complicated and has a trailing newline that I don't want. Any obvious and simpler way which doesn't have a trailing newline?

Jeff Schaller
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You can use tr -d "\n" to get rid of the new line character.

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alias cl="fc -ln -1 | sed 's/^\s*//' | tr -d '\n' | xsel -b"

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