Is there an Environment Variable that contains the clipboard contents?

Question

Is there a Bash environment variable (say $CLIPBOARD or similar) that contains the current contents of the clipboard?

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Answer 1

No, there isn't a bash environment variable. For your platform (which you don't specify) you may be able to use a command line tool like xclip or one of the many Windows utilities (google for "windows clipboard command line").