fish_clipboard_copy - copy text to the system’s clipboard — fish-shell 4.0.2 documentation

# fish_clipboard_copy - copy text to the system’s clipboard

## Synopsis

    fish_clipboard_copy

    foo | fish_clipboard_copy

## Description

The `fish_clipboard_copy` function copies text to the system clipboard.

If stdin is not a terminal (see isatty), it will read all input from there and copy it. If it is, it will use the current commandline, or the current selection if there is one.

It is bound to `ctrl`-`x` by default.

`fish_clipboard_copy` works by calling a system-specific backend. If it doesn’t appear to work you may need to install yours.

Currently supported are:

- `pbcopy`

- `wl-copy` using wayland

- `xsel` and `xclip` for X11

- `clip.exe` on Windows.

## See also

- fish_clipboard_paste - get text from the system’s clipboard which does the inverse.