bugaevc/wl-clipboard

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2413 stars · 88 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

wl-clipboard provides two command-line utilities, wl-copy and wl-paste, for copying and pasting data between the Wayland clipboard and Unix pipes, files, and sockets. It is written in C and packaged in most Linux and BSD distributions.

Use cases

• copy text to the wayland clipboard from the command line
• pipe command output into the clipboard
• paste clipboard contents into a file or pipe
• copy images or files to the clipboard
• run a command whenever the clipboard changes
• replace xclip with a wayland-native tool

When to choose

• you use a Wayland compositor and need scriptable clipboard access
• you want to pipe data to or from the clipboard in shell scripts
• you need a lightweight, distro-packaged clipboard CLI

When to avoid

• you are on X11 and want a native X11 tool (use xclip/xsel or the wrapper)
• you need a clipboard library API rather than CLI tools (consider wl-clipboard-rs)
• you need a graphical clipboard manager with history

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

cli developer-tools developer-tools desktop-applications bsd cli wayland clipboard wl-copy wl-paste c command-line linux

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