vim copy into clipboard with colon cmd

Question

I want to yank multiple lines with a colon command into the UNIX-clipboard without visual mode, like this: :1,4"+y or :1,$"+y

The clipboard is active --> echo has('clipboard') returns 1

I'm on raspberry pi and tried gvim and vim. Can anybody shed some light onto this? Thank you and kind regards!

Answer 1

This is possible with the :yank command, which can be abbreviated :y. It takes as its argument the register without the ". So, your examples could be written as so:

:1,4y +
:1,5y +

While it's possible to do this with the :normal command to do this with something like :normal 1G4"+yy, this would be a lot more complex and needlessly so. :yank is simpler and more flexible if you're fine with linewise operations.