milianw / shell-helpers

a bunch of little programs I wrote to make my life on the command line easier and less type-intensitive

shell-helpers / clipboard
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#!/bin/bash
 
# Access your KDE 4 klipper on the command line
# usage:
#  ./clipboard
#    will output current contents of klipper
#  echo "foobar" | ./clipboard
#    will put "foobar" into your clipboard/klipper
 
# check for stdin
#   since we don't want to wait endlessly we set a timeout
#   a pity `read` only supports seconds and no fractions...
read -t 1 stdin
if [[ "$stdin" != "" ]]; then
  # get the rest of stdin
  stdin=$stdin$'\n'$(cat)
  # oh, nice - user input! we set that as current
  # clipboard content
  dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.kde.klipper \
    /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.setClipboardContents \
    string:"$stdin"
  exit
fi
 
# if we reach this point no user input was given and we
#   print out the current contents of the clipboard
# note: I hate the output of dbus, dcop was much easier in that regard!
dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.kde.klipper /klipper \
    org.kde.klipper.klipper.getClipboardContents | awk '
      BEGIN { output = ""; }
      {
        if ( NR > 1 ) {
          output = output $0 "\n";
        }
      }
      END {
        print substr(output, 12, length(output) - 13);
      }'