Is there a way to print from the cliboard?

[Gilad Ben-Yossef]

Michael Shiloh wrote:

> I'm editing a file, or viewing a web page, or whatever.
>
> I'm interested in printing only a small portion of it.
>
> I'd like to be able to essentially "print selection".
>
> Of course this would require that each program (gvim, firefox, 
> thunderbird, terminal, whatever) provide such an option.
>
> Alternately, I can copy to my clipboard, and then through some clever 
> utility (I assume there are clipboard utilities?) print from 
> clipboard. This would work with any source, regardless of whether the 
> program supports printing selection or not.
>
> But when I searched I could not find the answer.
>
> Anyone know? Does such a think exist?

$ xclip -o | lpr

but it works only with text... :-)

Gilad



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