Title: Theory / Unimportant / CS / command line / xclip

Instruction: xclip
Page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip
Effect: Reads from standard in, or from one or more files, and makes the data available as an X selection for pasting into X applications. Prints current X selection to standard out.
Context: terminal

Fla: -i -in
Effect: read from stdin or files
Page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip
Prefix: xclip

Fla: -out
Effect: prints the selection to stdout
Page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip
Prefix: xclip
Flag abbreviation: -o

Fla: -filter
Effect: cause xclip to print the text piped to standard in back to standard out unmodified
Page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip
Prefix: xclip
Flag abbreviation: -f
Assuming: xclip is invoked in the in mode with output level set to silent (the defaults)

Fla: -loops
Effect: number of X selection requests (pastes into X applications) to wait for before exiting, with a value of 0 (default) causing xclip to wait for an unlimited number of requests until another application (possibly another invocation of xclip) takes ownership of the selection
Page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip
Prefix: xclip
Flag abbreviation: -l

Fla: -display
Effect: X display to use (e.g. "localhost:0"), xclip defaults to the value in $DISPLAY if this option is omitted
Page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip
Prefix: xclip
Flag abbreviation: -d

Fla: -help
Effect: show quick summary of options
Page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip
Prefix: xclip
Flag abbreviation: -h

Fla: -selection
Effect: specify which X selection to use, options are "primary" to use XA_PRIMARY (default), "secondary" for XA_SECONDARY or "clipboard" for XA_CLIPBOARD
Page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip
Prefix: xclip

Fla: -version
Effect: show version information
Page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip
Prefix: xclip

Fla: -silent
Effect: forks into the background to wait for requests, no informational output, error only
Page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip
Prefix: xclip

Fla: quiet
Effect: show informational messages on the terminal and run in the foreground
Page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip
Prefix: xclip

Fla: -versbose
Effect: provide a running commentary of what xclip is doing
Page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip
Prefix: xclip