title: Is there an Environment Variable that contains the clipboard contents?
body: <p>Is there a Bash environment variable (say <code>$CLIPBOARD</code> or similar) that contains the current contents of the clipboard?</p>
  
  <p>The specific example is to see the top 20 lines of a file whose path I have just copied into the clipboard.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Copy path with <code>Ctrl-C</code></li>
  <li>Switch to terminal</li>
  <li>Type <code>more</code>, <code>Ctrl-V</code></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> I'm running on CentOS 4</p>