How to copy to the clipboard the current path?

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ziiweb picture ziiweb · Mar 28, 2013 · Viewed 10.8k times · Source

How can I copy the current path in the bash terminal, using just one command?

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Jo So picture Jo So · Mar 28, 2013

Needs xsel installed:

pwd | xsel -i

(if you don't want the trailing newline, use printf %s "$(pwd)" | xsel -i (mostly correct) pwd | head -c -1 | xsel -i (perfectly correct))

Update August 2014: The xsel program is broken: See my bugreport.

Probably you can get along with xclip as well.

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