yank

Interactively select and copy terminal output

TLDR

Select and copy

$ echo "[text]" | yank

Custom delimiter

$ echo "[text]" | yank -d "[\n]"

Copy to X clipboard

$ echo "[text]" | yank -x

With selection command

$ echo "[text]" | yank -- xclip

SYNOPSIS

yank [-d delim] [-x] [options] [-- command]

yank reads input from a pipe or file and presents it in a terminal selection interface. The user navigates lines or fields with arrow keys, selects the desired text, and yank copies it to the clipboard or passes it to a specified command.By default, input is split into lines. The -d option sets a custom delimiter for splitting input into selectable fields, useful for extracting specific columns from structured output. The -l option forces line-by-line splitting regardless of content.Clipboard integration works through an external command such as xclip or xsel, specified after --. On systems with X11, the -x flag provides a shortcut for X clipboard access. The tool is designed to fit naturally into Unix pipelines, accepting input from any command that writes to stdout.