xdg-copy Manual

2006
Kevin Krammer

    kevin.krammer@gmx.at

Jeremy White

    jwhite@codeweavers.com

This is release 0.5 of the xdg-copy Manual.
xdg-copy 1
xdg-copy command line tool for copying files between desktop URIs
`xdg-copy` `source` `destination` `xdg-copy` `--help` `--manual` `--version`

## Description

xdg-copy copies source to destination and provides visual feedback to the user during the operation. Both source and destination can either be a file or URL. Supported URL types are file, ftp, http and https. Additional URL types may be supported depending on the desktop environment.

xdg-copy is for use inside a desktop session only. It is not recommended to use xdg-copy as root.

## Options

`--help`

  Show command synopsis.

`--manual`

  Show this manualpage.

`--version`

  Show the xdg-utils version information.

## Exit Codes

An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned:

`1`

  Error in command line syntax.

`2`

  One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.

`3`

  A required tool could not be found.

`4`

  The action failed.

## Examples

    xdg-copy "http://portland.freedesktop.org/png/freedesktop-logo.png" .

    xdg-copy "/tmp/foobar.png" "/home/user/foobar-copy.png"