Is there a way to print from the cliboard?

[Michael Shiloh]

Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
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> Michael Shiloh wrote:
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>> I'm editing a file, or viewing a web page, or whatever.
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>> I'm interested in printing only a small portion of it.
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>> I'd like to be able to essentially "print selection".
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>> Of course this would require that each program (gvim, firefox, 
>> thunderbird, terminal, whatever) provide such an option.
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>> 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.
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>> But when I searched I could not find the answer.
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>> Anyone know? Does such a think exist?
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> $ xclip -o | lpr
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> but it works only with text... :-)
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> Gilad

That's a feature, not a bug! (I'm a vi and command line kinda guy...)