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copying image from clipboard of remote machine to clipboard of local machine over SSH in Linux

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#!/bin/sh
rm /tmp/cliprect.png
ssh [email protected] "DISPLAY=:0 xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -o -" > /tmp/cliprect.png
if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
    notify-send -t 10000 "failed getting png from remote machine"
else
    xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -i /tmp/cliprect.png
fi

The image on the clipboard of the remote machine will be on the clipboard of yours, you can just directly paste it.

Available under MIT license. Only use after understanding all the commands. /tmp/cliprect.png will be deleted if the script is ran.