I am looking for 2 answers.
Where does ubuntu store its clipboard?
How to view the clipboard text in terminal other than simply pasting?
Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to the first question (If someone knows, please edit this answer!). I do know the answer to the second.
You will need to install a utility called xclip
.
xclip
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xclip
xclip -o -sel p
or if nothing appears / error:
xclip -o -sel c
What these options mean:
xclip: the program
-o: Output to stdout (Standard Out, in this case, the terminal)
-sel: Select clipboard
-p: primary clipboard. Pretty much used for all copy/cut operations. (right-click, shortcut keys, etc.)
-s: secondary clipboard. Pretty much not used anymore. :)
-c: clipboard. Generally used for shortcut key copy/cut.
The primary
one. :)