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NAME
yank — yank terminal output to clipboard
SYNOPSIS
yank [ -1ilxv ] [ -d delim ] [ -g pattern ] [ -- command [ argument ... ]]
DESCRIPTION
Read input from stdin and display a selection interface that allows a field to be selected and copied to the clipboard. Fields are either recognized by a regular expression using the -g option or by splitting the input on a delimiter sequence using the -d option, see “DELIMITERS”.
Using the arrow keys will move the selected field, see “COMMANDS”. Pressing the return key will invoke command and write the selected field to its stdin . The command defaults to xsel (1x) but could be anything that accepts input on stdin , see “EXAMPLES”.
The options are as follows:
-1
If only one field is recognized, select it and invoke command without displaying the selection interface.
-d delim
All input characters not present in delim will be recognized as fields, see “DELIMITERS”.
-g pattern
Use pattern to recognize fields, expressed as a POSIX extended regular expression.
-i
Ignore case differences between pattern and the input.
-l
Use the default delimiters except for space, see “DELIMITERS”.
-v
Prints version.
-x
Use alternate screen.
-- command [ argument ... ]
Use command with zero or more args as the yank command.
COMMANDS
Ctrl-A
|
g
Move selection to the first field.
Ctrl-C | Ctrl-D
Exit without invoking the yank command.
Ctrl-E | G
Move selection to the last field.
Ctrl-P / Ctrl-N | Left / Right | h / l
Move selection to the left or right.
Up / Down | j / k
Move selection to the next or previous line.
Enter
Exit using the selected field.
DELIMITERS
If the -d and -g options are omitted the following characters are recognized as delimiters by default:
\f
form feed
\n
new line
\r
carriage return
\s
space
\t
horizontal tab
If the -d option is present space is not recognized as a delimiter.
EXAMPLES
Yank an environment variable key or value:
$ env | yank -d =
Yank a field from a CSV file:
$ yank -d \", <file.csv
Yank a whole line using the -l option:
$ make 2>&1 | yank -l
If stdout is not a terminal the selected field will be written to stdout and exit without invoking the yank command. Kill the selected PID:
$ ps ux | yank -g [0-9]+ | xargs kill
Yank the selected field to the clipboard as opposed of the default primary clipboard:
$ yank — xsel -b
DIAGNOSTICS
The yank utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
re_format (7)
AUTHORS
Anton Lindqvist < anton@basename.se >
CAVEATS
Recognizing fields enclosed in brackets requires ‘]’ to be present before ‘[’ in the argument given to the -d option, see re_format (7). Debian July 10, 2015 YANK (1)