Reading clipboard contents with a bash script

[Zoran]

On Mar 13 Joel Hammer was heard saying:

->I use mutt, linux, and kde.

<snip>

->I just highlight the link, switch to an xterm, type n <three mouse click>
->  and the link opens very nicely.
->
->Is there a way to run a shell script which would automatically read in
->the current contents of the clipboard, thus avoiding the need for the
->mouse click?
->
->I can imagine a mapped key in mutt which would do all of those things
->with one key stroke. The main problem is getting the script to see the
->clipboard contents.



*** Joel,

have you read the man and the doc pages for mutt carefully? I use pine so
in that effect I will not be able to help you but I am sure mutt allows to
pipe the link to a script. Which means that you just need a script to
launch the link in Netscape.

I do not know the solution to your mutt problem but I can mail you a
script which was especially made to launch a browser from within a client
with a TUI interface. Tell me if you need it.

Cheers,
Zoran.
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