#!/bin/bash

# From http://milianw.de/code-snippets/access-klipper-clipboard-on-cli-under-kde4
#
# Here’s a little script you can save in your path and do things like
#   # paste current clipboard into file
#     clipboard > "some_file"
#   # copy some file into clipboard
#    cat "some_file" | clipboard
# Actually I find it rather useful so I thought I will have to share it.


# check for stdin
#   since we don't want to wait endlessly we set a timeout
#   a pity `read` only supports seconds and no fractions...

# read -t 1 stdin

#if [[ "$stdin" != "" ]]; then
  # get the rest of stdin
  stdin=$stdin$(cat)
  # oh, nice - user input! we set that as current
  # clipboard content
  dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.kde.klipper \
     /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.setClipboardContents \
     string:"$stdin"
  exit
#fi

# if we reach this point no user input was given and we
#   print out the current contents of the clipboard
# note: I hate the output of dbus, dcop was much easier in that regard!
dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.kde.klipper /klipper \
        org.kde.klipper.klipper.getClipboardContents | awk '
          BEGIN { output = ""; }
          {
            if ( NR > 1 ) {
              output = output $0 "\n";
            }
          }
          END {
              print substr(output, 12, length(output) - 13);
         }'