xclip - how to copy from gnome-terminal to clipboard to e.g. firefox

[Nickleus]

if you want to copy something from the console to the normal system clipboard so you can paste it into a program like firefox or gedit or whatever, without using the mouse, you can use xclip:

cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub |xclip -selection clipboard

ref: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...al/+bug/328155

[Nickleus]

or you can use the shorthand:

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | xclip -sel clip

source: http://help.github.com/linux-key-setup/