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From: mmm@cetia1.cetia.fr (Mark Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: printing a selection from xterm
Message-ID: <1767@cetia.cetia.fr>
Date: 17 Dec 90 08:43:57 GMT
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In article <696@lyman.pppl.gov> monticel@lyman.pppl.gov (Don Monticello) writes:
>I'd like to be able to print the current selection in xterm.

Here's a grotty little shell script I use.  Not perfect, but cheap.
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#!/bin/sh
# return selected text. Mark Martin. cetia. france.
# xprop returned format is (eg) CUT_BUFFER0 = "echo \"cetia\\\"\n"
# get the \" and \\ and \n undone.  sadly sed wont take long lines.
# sed wont read input not ending in newline, so need to chop off final newline
# use bell as newline marker.
bell=

xprop -root -notype CUT_BUFFER0 |
sed '1s/[^=]*= "//
	s/\\n/'"$bell"'/g
	s/\\"/"/g
	s/\\\\/\\/g
	$s/"$//' |
tr -d '\012' |
tr $bell '\012'
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