37.10 Clipboard File Copy Paste
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Consider this scenario. You have an image in a file that you want to paste into the body of an email rather than selecting the file as an attachment. The screenshot app, for example, allows a screenshot to be copied to the clipboard and that can then be pasted into Outlook in Office 365, or into a Teams post. But what if the image is already in a file. The xclip command comes in very handy here. The following does the magic:
xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -i screen.pngThe image is read from the supplied file with the -i or -in option
(it could be a text file if you wanted to load text into the
clipboard). The -selection loads the contents into the actual
clipboard (technically, XA_CLIPBOARD) rather than selecting it as
the primary as in XA_PRIMARY (or secondary as in XA_SECONDARY)
selection. The -t or -target says this is a PNG image.
Once you have run that command simply paste into Outlook (Ctrl-V).
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