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I'm connected to a server via ssh -x and my only way to get text out of the system is the x clipboard (unless i want to take thousends of screenshots and OCR over it).

I can not execute any programs on the other machine, because i don't have access.

How can I achive this?

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Use xclip.

On the remote computer

xclip a_text_file_with_some_data.txt

On the local computer 

xclip -o > test.txt

You did move the text via the clipboard, but not the "normal" way :)

Johan
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Many terminal emulators (PuTTY, gnome-terminal, Xterm) let you either:

  • log all terminal output to a file, or
  • set a really big scrollback buffer (01000 lines or so) and then copy all of it.
grawity
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