NAME

       yank — yank terminal output to clipboard

SYNOPSIS

       yank [-lx | -v] [-d delim] [-g pattern [-i]] [-- command [argument ...]]

DESCRIPTION

       Read  input from stdin and display a selection interface that allows a field to be selected and copied to
       the clipboard. Fields are either recognized by a regular expression using the -g option or  by  splitting
       the input on a delimiter sequence using the -d option, see DELIMITERS.

       Using the arrow keys will move the selected field. The interface support several Emacs like key bindings,
       see  COMMANDS.   Pressing the return key will invoke the yank command and write the selected field to the
       its stdin.  The yank command defaults to xsel(1) but could be anything that accepts input on stdin.  When
       invoking yank everything supplied after the -- option will be used as the yank command, see EXAMPLES.

OPTIONS

       -d delim
                all input characters not present in delim will be recognized as fields, see DELIMITERS

       -g pattern
                use the regular expression pattern to recognize fields expressed as a to POSIX extended  regular
                expression

       -i       ignore case differences between pattern and the input

       -l       use the default delimiters except for space, see DELIMITERS

       -v       prints version

       -x       use alternate screen

       -- command [argument ...]
                use command with zero or more argument as the yank command

COMMANDS

       Ctrl-A   move selection to the first field

       Ctrl-C   exit without invoking the yank command

       Ctrl-E   move selection to the last field

       Ctrl-N or Right
                move selection to the right

       Ctrl-P or Left
                move selection to the left

       Down     move selection to the next line

       Up       move selection to the previous line

       Enter    exit using the selected field

DELIMITERS

       If the -d and -g options are omitted the following characters are recognized as delimiters by default:

       \f       form feed

       \n       new line

       \r       carriage return

       \s       space

       \t       horizontal tab
       If the -d option is present space is not recognized as a delimiter.

EXAMPLES

       Yank a environment variable key or value:

             env | yank -d =

       Yank a field from a CSV file:

             yank -d \", <file.csv

       Yank a whole line using the -l option:

             make 2>&1 | yank -l

       If  stdout  is  not a terminal the selected field will be written to stdout and exit without invoking the
       yank command. Kill the selected PID:

             ps ux | yank -g [0-9]+ | xargs kill

       Yank the selected field to the clipboard as opposed of the default primary clipboard:

             yank -- xsel -b

DIAGNOSTICS

       The yank utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

       re_format(7)

AUTHORS

       Anton Lindqvist <anton.lindqvist@gmail.com>

Debian                                            July 10, 2015                                          YANK(1)