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1CopyQ(1)                    General Commands Manual                   CopyQ(1)
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NAME

6       CopyQ - Clipboard Manager with Advanced Features
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SYNOPSIS

11       copyq [COMMAND]
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DESCRIPTION

16       CopyQ  is  advanced  clipboard  manager with editing and scripting fea‐
17       tures. It monitors system clipboard and saves its content in customized
18       tabs.  Saved clipboard can be later copied and pasted directly into any
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COMMANDS

24       Starts server if no command is specified.
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28              Show main window and optionally open tab with given name.
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32       toggle Show or hide main window.
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49       paste  Paste clipboard to current window (may not work with some appli‐
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80              Edit  items  or  edit  new one.  Value -1 is for current text in
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89              Print raw data of clipboard or item in row.
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111              Run  command  on  tab  with  given  name.   Tab is created if it
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141              Evaluate ECMAScript program.   Arguments  are  accessible  using
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NOTES

154       Use dash argument (-) to read data from standard input.
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EXAMPLES

164       Insert some texts to the history:
165              copyq add "first item" "second item" "third item"
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169              copyq read 0 1 2 copyq separator "," read 0 1 2
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173              copyq  clipboard  copyq clipboard text/html copyq clipboard \? #
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181       Load file content into clipboard:
182              copyq copy - < file.txt copyq copy text/html < index.html  copyq
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187              copyq  write  image/gif  - < image.gif copyq write image/svg - <
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AUTHOR

198       The maintainer of CopyQ is Lukas Holecek <hluk@email.cz>. A  comprehen‐
199       sive list of authors and contributors is available in the AUTHORS file.
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201       This  manual  page  was written by GengYu Rao (zouyoo@outlook.com), for
202       the Debian project (and may be used by others).
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