Copy "entire" file (not just file content)

[ysooqe]

Hi there,

I have looked around this repo, but I haven't found a matching issue.

How can an "entire" file be copied to the clipboard so that it can be pasted into other applications like web-browsers or email-clients (e.g. as attachments)?

When I do something like $ wl-copy < my_document.pdf, it appearently only copies the file content, but not the entire file. I can not paste the copied file into another application with Ctrl+V.

What is the command to copy the entire file into the clipboard via wl-copy?

[bugaevc]

Hi, please see #26

In particular, something like this is likely to do what you want:

$ wl-copy -t text/uri-list "file://$(realpath my_document.pdf)"

[ysooqe]

Thanks for the quick reply! Unfortunately, this does not seem to work (and neither do the suggestions from the linked issue thread).

In Gnome, when I go to Nautilus and Ctrl+C on a file, $ wl-paste --list-types gives me

text/plain;charset=utf-8
text/uri-list
application/vnd.portal.files
application/vnd.portal.filetransfer
x-special/gnome-copied-files

and $ wl-paste returns

/home/user/my_document.pdf

and I can easily paste this file into other applications using Ctrl+V.

Now I tried doing $ wl-paste | wl-copy -t <type> where <type> is any of the above, then I tried to paste this into another application with Ctrl+V to see what happens; but nothing happend for any of the types (and I made sure to re-copy the file from Nautilus between trying this command with different types).

So this kind of seems like there must be something else that Nautilus is copying into the clipboard compared to wl-copy?

[Vaisakhkm2625]

i came here cuz https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/tips/#selected-files-to-clipboard wasn't working...

what i found was

wl-copy -t x-special/gnome-copied-files file:///home/vaisakh/Vide
os/getvid.mp4

now i can paste to thunar(maybe nautilus too?) file manager, but not to browser

wl-copy -t text/uri-list file:///home/vaisakh/Videos/getvid.mp4

now i can paste to browser (firefox)

can i specify both type at once?

[septatrix]

wl-copy -t text/uri-list "file://$(realpath my_document.pdf)"

This especially does not work for portals as they use something different