Copying command output directly into clipboard on Linux

I am a Linux user and wanted to just copy the output of commands such as pwd to the system clip board without hassles. Here is how:

1) Install xclip with apt-get

$ sudo apt-get install xclip

2) Pipe command output to xclip

$ <your command> | c=tr -d '\n' | xclip -selection clipboard

For example, this one-liner

$ pwd | c=tr -d '\n' | xclip -selection clipboard

copies the current directory path into the system-wide clipboard. Without the trailing option -selection clipboard, the content copied will not be available to other applications.

Command Alias

To make life even easier for lazy people like me, create the alias

alias "c=tr -d '\n' | xclip -selection clipboard"

in your ~/.bashrc, and use it this way:

$ pwd | c

Now you can paste the output of the command anywhere on your machine :)

Reference:
How can I copy the output of a command directly into my clipboard?
http://stackoverflow.com/a/5130969/1478110