Solaris equivalent to OS X's pbcopy / pbpaste?

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OS X has nice commands for manipulating the clipboard: pbcopy and pbpaste

I could really use something similar in Solaris 10. I've checked for xsel and xclip, and Solaris 10 doesn't have them. Am I completely out of luck?

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There isn't anything quite equivalent on a system-wide basis for Solaris, because Solaris isn't a desktop operating environment. It has desktop OEs, but they're a layer on top of everything else and you cannot depend on them being there.

If you want, you can indeed build xclip from source. However, that's not a system-wide solution.

What problem are you trying to solve, btw?