How to copy to the clipboard the current path?

Question

How can I copy the current path in the bash terminal, using just one command?

Accepted Answer

Needs `xsel` installed:

```
pwd | xsel -i
```

(if you don't want the trailing newline, use `printf %s "$(pwd)" | xsel -i` (mostly correct) `pwd | head -c -1 | xsel -i` (perfectly correct))

Update August 2014: The `xsel` program is broken: See my bugreport.

Probably you can get along with `xclip` as well.

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