Man page - zz(1)

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zz - zz is the generic clip board program

args

zz is the generic clip board program. See also the edit helper program ezz. The clip board is $ZZ (default: $HOME/.zz)

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

write $ZZ to STDOUT

zz files ...

copy file(s) into $ZZ

zz -

write STDIN to $ZZ

... | zz

write STDIN from pipe to $ZZ

zz | ...

write $ZZ to pipe

zz does not work across different accounts or hosts. Use xx instead.

zz *.txt
ls -l | zz
zz | wc -l
(within mutt:) | zz
(within tin:) | azz
(within vi:) :w !zz
(within vi:) :r !zz

zz was written by Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>

This manual page was written by Michael Bussmann <debian@mb-net.net> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).