Whenever I copy any text via X11's copy/paste feature, I would like all formatting to be removed. I waste time daily dumping the text into a terminal, then copying again.
Is this possible?
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2What kind of formatting are you refering to? Which applications are you copying from and into? Are you using the PRIMARY selection (mouse selection and middle click to paste) or the CLIPBOARD selection (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V)?– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'Commented Aug 1, 2015 at 22:32
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This should do it:
xclip -selection c -o | xclip -selection c
answered Aug 1, 2015 at 23:02
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1Thank you! I've been trying to figure out how to do this for so long now. I'll just bind that command to a fluxbox keyboard shortcut, and it will give me the option to remove formatting if I want! Commented Aug 3, 2015 at 6:56
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1Is there a way to automatically run this command every time some thing copied? I tried whit the clipboard from KDE but no luck.– DenCommented May 9, 2018 at 9:07
This will also do it in case you have xsel instead of xclip. You may need to use the -b option on both commands if it's in your CLIPBOARD instead of your primary SELECTION (See xsel man page).
xsel | xsel
Mac users can do this with pbcopy / pbpaste.
pbpaste | pbcopy
Ubuntu distros can do this by default with CtrlShiftV.
