https://github.com/gmelodie/xcreep

📎 Simple wrapper to xclip in Go
https://github.com/gmelodie/xcreep

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📎 Simple wrapper to xclip in Go

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gmelodie/xcreep
• Owner: gmelodie
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-01-28T23:06:49.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-01-09T12:31:30.000Z (10 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-30T14:29:31.795Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.47 MB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# xcreep

`xcreep` is an easy wrapper for [`xclip`](https://github.com/astrand/xclip) made in Go.

## Installation

Simply

```

go get github.com/gmelodie/xcreep

```

## Usage

1. Copy the contents of a file, say `example.txt`, to the clipboard:

```

./xcreep example.txt

```

![xcreep copy](xcreep-usage-copy.gif)

2. Paste it wherever you want with CTRL+V or Right-click > Paste.

![xcreep paste](xcreep-usage-paste.gif)

If you are on a different directory, just use either the absolute or the relative paths to that file:

```

./xcreep /home/root/flag.txt    # absolute path

./xcreep ../root/flag.txt       # relative path (if you are in /home/some-dir)

```

## Why?

Because I was tired of (1) having to look up how to copy to clipboard with xclip and

(2) not being able to `cat file.txt > xclip` or `cat file.txt | xclip` or simply `xclip file.txt`

> But you can just make a simple script to wrap xclip

[I know](https://gist.github.com/gmelodie/0830c03eee0addb44073cc93dc02dd94), but it was fun coding it in Go though