Tool of the week – xclip
You’ll crap bricks when you hear about this tool. If you’re background is on Mac, this tool is similar to pbcopy, pbpaste. Until recent, I was not aware that Linux had a very similar tool available that can be used to do the same awesome things you can do with the above two.
The Linux version is called xclip.
xclip is a command line interface to the X11 clipboard. It can also be used for copying files, as an alternative to sftp/scp, thus avoiding password prompts when X11 forwarding has already been setup.
Tools like this can improve your productivity by avoiding many unnecessary and tedious things.