This probably not exatly what I want

by "Perl to help me with clipboard" I meant that I copied something into clipboard elsewhere (not in my application), then run my one-liner and have in my clipboard something else.

Say, I start Mozilla, make a selection, and then in menu item "Edit->Copy" place a selection into clipboard.

Can I write a one-liner to, say, upcase contents of clipboard, when I paste it elsewhere, I will see upcased content of selection in that Mozilla, which could be un-selected to the moment already?

Also, it must work without X11 also.

In win32 I do this as: perl -MWin32::Clipboard -we "$clip=Win32::Clipboard;$clip->Set(uc($clip->Get())"
my last example is lenghty, but I have wrappers so my actual one-liner is much shorter.

In reply to Re^2: how do I place text into clipboard on Linux? by Courage
in thread how do I place text into clipboard on Linux? by Courage

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