fish_clipboard_copy - copy text to the system's clipboard

Synopsis

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fish_clipboard_copy

foo | fish_clipboard_copy

Description

The fish_clipboard_copy function copies text to the system clipboard.

If stdin is not a terminal (see :doc:isatty <isatty>), it will read all input from there and copy it. If it is, it will use the current commandline, or the current selection if there is one.

It is bound to :kbd:ctrl-x by default.

fish_clipboard_copy works by calling a system-specific backend. If it doesn't appear to work you may need to install yours.

Currently supported are:

• pbcopy
• wl-copy using wayland
• xsel and xclip for X11
• clip.exe on Windows.
• The :ref:OSC 52 clipboard sequence <term-compat-osc-52>, which your terminal might support

See also

• :doc:fish_clipboard_paste which does the inverse.