astrand/xclip
Command line interface to the X11 clipboard observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3865
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 601
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1317 stars · 79 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
xclip is a command line utility for reading and writing X11 selections (the clipboard) on any system with an X11 implementation. It can pipe data from stdin or files into an X selection and print selection contents to stdout for redirection.
Use cases
- copy command output to the clipboard from the terminal
- paste clipboard contents into a file or another program
- copy text from a browser into a shell script
- transfer files between machines over an X11 connection
- copy the primary selection to the clipboard selection
- copy selected vim lines to the X selection
When to avoid
- you are on Wayland without XWayland and need native Wayland clipboard support
- you need a graphical clipboard history manager
- you are on macOS or Windows where native clipboard tools like pbcopy or clip.exe exist
Facets
cli-tool · maturity stable
cli developer-tools developer-tools cross-platform cli clipboard x11 x-selections c command-line linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/astrand/xclip · fetched 2026-08-28 · a058e2dcaa9c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| astrand/xclip | main | 23 |
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