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cliphist — Manage clipboard history for Wayland compositors. Works with `wl-copy` and `wl-paste`. More informat

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Problem

How to use the cliphist command: Manage clipboard history for Wayland compositors. Works with wl-copy and wl-paste. More information: <https://github.com/sentriz/cliphist#usage>.

Solution

cliphist — Manage clipboard history for Wayland compositors. Works with wl-copy and wl-paste. More information: <https://github.com/sentriz/cliphist#usage>.

List clipboard history entries:

cliphist list

Select and copy a previous clipboard entry (using fzf):

cliphist list | fzf | cliphist decode | wl-copy

Delete all stored clipboard entries:

cliphist wipe

Delete a specific clipboard entry by ID:

cliphist delete {{id}}

Save the current clipboard content manually:

wl-paste | cliphist store

Code Snippets

List clipboard history entries

cliphist list

Select and copy a previous clipboard entry (using `fzf`)

cliphist list | fzf | cliphist decode | wl-copy

Delete all stored clipboard entries

cliphist wipe

Delete a specific clipboard entry by ID

cliphist delete {{id}}

Save the current clipboard content manually

wl-paste | cliphist store

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