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sifuhall
sifuhall

Reputation: 1

How to parse and return a specific section of the clipboard?

I need to pull out a specific section of the clipboard data.

Characters 235 - 242 are all I need and anything before or after that isn't needed.

I'm using xsel to retrieve the clipboard data, but how can I trim this to only those characters?

I'm a newbie so I don't know what command-line tools can achieve this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 20

Answers (1)

Toby Speight
Toby Speight

Reputation: 30951

You can use the cut utility to extract a substring. This is normally a line-oriented command, but we can change it to use a null character as line separator with the -z option. Assuming you don't have any nulls in your clipboard text, that will make it index into the full content.

xsel --clipboard | cut -z -c235-242

Upvotes: 0

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