Question

I am using xclip in order to copy the shell output into the clipboard by the following command:

cat filename.ext | xclip -i -selection clipboard

i which to create a soft link for the command after the pipe, i.e. xclip -i -selection clipboard, in order to have it short. for instance, executing the same thing as above but shorter

cat filename.ext | clip

I would appreciate if one could elaborate on how it should be done.

Answer 1

What you want is an ‘alias’, not a softlink: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/aliases.html

alias clip="xclip -i -selection clipboard"