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cutsel(1)

cutsel1

Show information about the x clipboard and the cutbuffer in sync

Usage

cutsel [-selection selection_name] [-cutbuffer number] [-debug] [-verbose] {cut | sel}

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the cutsel command.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

cutsel [options] cut

shows the contents of the cut buffer and

cutsel [options] sel

shows the owner of the selection.

Options

-selection, -select, -sel, -s {CLIPBOARD|PRIMARY}

Specify which selection to use. Default is CLIPBOARD.

-cutbuffer <number>

(Details of this parameter unknown.)

-debug, -d

Run with debugging mode.

-verbose, -v

Be more verbose. Reports the version and announces synchronizations.

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie) to Debian 9 (Stretch): the text shown here
  • Debian 8 (Jessie) to Debian 7 (Wheezy)
  • Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) to Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

Author

This manual page was written by Elmar S. Heeb <[email protected]> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

From autocutsel 0.10.1-1+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.