$Id: um6.txt 7 2009-02-25 15:19:11Z j-waldby $ um6 illustrates use of xclip. When you drop an IP number or internet machine name on the Host/Whois/Dig button, the script puts the IP number into shell variable IP, then in turn invokes host, whois, and dig to get data about the IP number. Output from each command is filtered by grep -v commands, to suppress some uninteresting, repetitive stuff.