Clipboard - Copy and paste with any OS
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Bugs
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website
<https://github.com/shlomif/Clipboard/issues>
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that
illustrates the bug or desired feature.
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2010. Ryan King. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
itself.
See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.htmlCopyright And License
This software is copyright (c) 2025 by Ryan King <rking@panoptic.com>.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
programming language system itself.
perl v5.40.0 2025-02-15 Clipboard(3pm)
Description
Who doesn't remember the first time they learned to copy and paste, and generated an exponentially
growing text document? Yes, that's right, clipboards are magical.
With Clipboard.pm, this magic is now trivial to access, in a cross-platform-consistent API, from your
Perl code.
Name
Clipboard - Copy and paste with any OS
See Also
clipaccumulate(1), clipbrowse(1), clipedit(1), clipfilter(1), clipjoin(1)
Status
Seems to be working well for Linux, OSX, *BSD, and Windows. I use it every day on Linux, so I think I've
got most of the details hammered out (X selections are kind of weird). Please let me know if you
encounter any problems in your setup.
Support
Websites
The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. As always, in
addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources.
• MetaCPAN
A modern, open-source CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in HTML format.
<https://metacpan.org/release/Clipboard>
• RT: CPAN's Bug Tracker
The RT ( Request Tracker ) website is the default bug/issue tracking system for CPAN.
<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Clipboard>
• CPANTS
The CPANTS is a website that analyzes the Kwalitee ( code metrics ) of a distribution.
<http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/dist/Clipboard>
• CPAN Testers
The CPAN Testers is a network of smoke testers who run automated tests on uploaded CPAN
distributions.
<http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/C/Clipboard>
• CPAN Testers Matrix
The CPAN Testers Matrix is a website that provides a visual overview of the test results for a
distribution on various Perls/platforms.
<http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Clipboard>
• CPAN Testers Dependencies
The CPAN Testers Dependencies is a website that shows a chart of the test results of all dependencies
for a distribution.
<http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=Clipboard>
Bugs/FeatureRequests
Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to "bug-clipboard at rt.cpan.org", or through the web
interface at <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Clipboard>. You will be automatically
notified of any progress on the request by the system.
SourceCode
The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play
with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from
your repository :)
<https://github.com/shlomif/Clipboard>
git clone git://github.com/shlomif/Clipboard.git
Synopsis
use Clipboard;
print Clipboard->paste;
Clipboard->copy('foo');
# Same as copy on non-X / non-Xclip systems
Clipboard->copy_to_all_selections('text_to_copy');
Clipboard->cut() is an alias for copy(). copy() is the preferred method, because we're not really
"cutting" anything.
Version
version 0.32
