CopyQ(1)

NAME
CopyQ - Clipboard Manager with Advanced Features

SYNOPSIS
copyq [COMMAND]

DESCRIPTION
CopyQ is advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features. It monitors system clipboard and saves its content in customized tabs. Saved clipboard can be later copied and pasted directly into any application.

COMMANDS
Starts server if no command is specified.

show [NAME]
    Show main window and optionally open tab with given name.

hide
    Hide main window.

toggle
    Show or hide main window.

menu
    Open context menu.

exit
    Exit server.

disable, enable
    Disable or enable clipboard content storing.

clipboard [MIME]
    Print clipboard content.

selection [MIME]
    Print X11 selection content.

paste
    Paste clipboard to current window (may not work with some applications).

copy TEXT
    Set clipboard text.

copy MIME DATA [MIME DATA]...
    Set clipboard content.

count
    Print amount of items in current tab.

select [ROW=0]
    Copy item in the row to clipboard.

next
    Copy next item from current tab to clipboard.

previous
    Copy previous item from current tab to clipboard.

add TEXT...
    Add text into clipboard.

insert ROW TEXT
    Insert text into given row.

remove [ROWS=0...]
    Remove items in given rows.

edit [ROW=-1...]
    Edit items or edit new one. Value -1 is for current text in clipboard.

separator SEPARATOR
    Set separator for items on output.

read [MIME|ROW]...
    Print raw data of clipboard or item in row.

write [ROW=0] MIME DATA [MIME DATA]...
    Write raw data to given row.

action [ROWS=0...]
    Show action dialog.

action [ROWS=0...] [PROGRAM [SEPARATOR=\n]]
    Run PROGRAM on item text in the rows. Use %1 in PROGRAM to pass text as argument.

popup TITLE MESSAGE [TIME=8000]
    Show tray popup message for TIME milliseconds.

tab List available tab names.

tab NAME [COMMAND]
    Run command on tab with given name. Tab is created if it doesn't exist. Default is the first tab.

removetab NAME
    Remove tab.

renametab NAME NEW_NAME
    Rename tab.

exporttab FILE_NAME
    Export items to file.

importtab FILE_NAME
    Import items from file.

config
    List all options.

config OPTION
    Get option value.

config OPTION VALUE
    Set option value.

eval, -e [SCRIPT] [ARGUMENTS]...
    Evaluate ECMAScript program. Arguments are accessible using with "arguments[0..N]".

session, -s, --session SESSION
    Starts or connects to application instance with given session name.

help, -h, --help [COMMAND]...
    Print help for COMMAND or all commands.

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

Use double-dash argument (--) to read all following arguments without expanding escape sequences (i.e. \n, \t and others).

Use ? for MIME to print available MIME types (default is "text/plain").

EXAMPLES

Insert some texts to the history:
    copyq add "first item" "second item" "third item"

Print content of the first three items:
    copyq read 0 1 2 copyq separator "," read 0 1 2

Show current clipboard content:
    copyq clipboard copyq clipboard text/html copyq clipboard \? # lists formats in clipboard

Copy text to the clipboard:
    copyq copy "Some Text"

Load file content into clipboard:
    copyq copy - < file.txt copyq copy text/html < index.html copyq copy image/jpeg - < image.jpg

Create an image items:
    copyq write image/gif - < image.gif copyq write image/svg - < image.svg

SEE ALSO
https://copyq.readthedocs.io/

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