Cut to the system clipboard from Vim on Ubuntu

Question

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 Beta and Vim that has come with it. I am trying to use Vim to copy the content of a text file to Chrome browser. I have tried +, *

Answer 1

You can do it; just pipe to xclip.

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:'<,'>w !xclip

from here: in vim with xclip, yank to clipboard