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authorGravatar Arun Prakash Jana <engineerarun@gmail.com>2018-02-26 17:50:31 +0530
committerGravatar Arun Prakash Jana <engineerarun@gmail.com>2018-02-26 17:50:31 +0530
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A very common scenario on headless remote servers connected via SSH. As the clipboard is missing, `nnn` copies the path names to the tmp file `/tmp/nnncp`.
-To use the copied paths from the cmdline, use command substitution:
+`nnn` needs to know X is unavailable:
+
+ export NNN_NO_X=1
+
+Use <kbd>^Y</kbd> and/or <kbd>^K</kbd> to copy file paths as usual. To use the copied paths from the cmdline, use command substitution:
# bash/zsh
ls -ltr `cat /tmp/nnncp`