[PLUG] Re wget

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Fri Oct 4 20:29:32 UTC 2002


> 
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Rogan Creswick wrote:
> > A useful thing to do would be to bind a key to a script that cd's to a
> > predefined downloads dir and runs wget on whatever is in the
> > clipboard.
> 
> How would a script get access to the clipboard (or, more to the useful
> point, the mouse paste buffer)?
> 

I can't think of a way to do that in bash, but I bet it could be done
using something like tcl/tk, or perl/tk, etc.

galen







More information about the PLUG mailing list