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Alternatively, how can you dump the contents of your clipboard to a text file? If at all possible, I'd like this for the actual clipboard, but also the clipboard delegated to highlighted text, and even vim's if you can manage it.

I figure if you can at least echo it, then you should be able to > into a file pretty easily.

Anon
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  • Vim's registers are internal to it, unless you use the * or + registers, in which case it uses the clipboard(s) – muru Jan 25 '17 at 06:42

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Job for xclip:

xclip -o >file.txt
  • -o dumps the current clipboard (precisely selection) content to STDOUT, then you can simply leverage a shell redirection

xclip comes with xclip package, you might need to install it first.

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  • two clipboards; that seems to work for highlighted text. Now what about copied text? – Anon Jan 25 '17 at 04:01
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    @Akiva X11 server has clipboard, which is where copied text goes, and two selections, primary and secondary. xclip -sel clip -o releases copied text. Just read tye manual for xclip , there's plenty of options – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jan 25 '17 at 04:22