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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "open3"

# Puts "meep ity" on the clipboard:
# [danopia@danopia ~]$ clip meep ity

# Puts "meep ity\n" on the clipboard:
# [danopia@danopia ~]$ echo "meep ity"|clip

# Puts "meepity! lulz\n" on the clipboard: (use Ctrl-D)
# [danopia@danopia ~]$ clip
# meepity! lulz
# [danopia@danopia ~]$ 

# Puts "meepity! lulz" on the clipboard: (use Ctrl-D)
# [danopia@danopia ~]$ clip
# meepity! lulz[danopia@danopia ~]$ 

# Created by danopia becuase having to type "-selection clipboard" was
# driving me insane, plus I can also use ARGV :) Next up is reading
# files from ARGV.

Open3.popen3('xclip -selection clipboard') do |stdin, stdout, stderr|
	if ARGV.size > 0
		stdin.write ARGV.join(' ')
	else
		until $stdin.eof?
			stdin.write $stdin.read(256)
		end
	end
end