Answer by vanadium for Bash: programmatically output text to cursor?

To programatically output text at the cursor, one can use keyboard simulation tools. These tools send keystrokes to an application.

xdotool type "$(xclip -o)" may indeed appear to be a way to make it work. However:

1. It will only work on Xorg, not on Wayland, the default of modern Ubuntu systems

2. It will prove to be unreliable when the text to type becomes somewhat longer

• To address issue one, you can use ydotool or dotool. These tools work on both Xorg and Wayland. To manipulate the clipboard on Wayland, wl-clipboard is available.

• To address issue two, consider pasting the clipboard text rather than typing it. To do that, simulate the shortcut key Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert. Not only will that reliably paste all text, it will also be a lot faster.

In your script, the text is already in the clipboard. So pasting rather than typing the contents out is obvious: you can simply replace xdotool type "$(xclip -o) with xdotool key ctrl+v. Using dotool, the command will be:

echo key ctrl+v | dotoolc

With ydotool, it becomes

ydotool key 29:1 47:1 47:0 29:0