Simulating keystrokes from clipboard

If you're like me and refuse to manually type anything, you might appreciate this trick. If you ever have to interface with a program or system that doesn't support pasting text from the clipboard but only supports typing keys (such as a virtual machine console, VNC, or KVM software): Notes:

• This is for creating a SH script and is for the X window system (Linux, BSD, Unix, etc). Not Windows. Don't use Windows.
• Requires the xclip program. To install (on apt-based Linux distros in this example):
  

  sudo apt-get install xclip

• Requires the xdotool program. To install (on apt-based Linux distros in this example):
  

  sudo apt-get install xdotool

#!/bin/sh

# Get the contents of the X clipboard with:
TEXT="$(xclip -o -selection clipboard)"

# Sleep 5 seconds before sending keys. During this period, give the application's window focus so that it will receive the keystrokes
echo Sleeping 5 seconds before sending keys...
sleep 5

# Send the keystrokes
xdotool type --delay 100  "$TEXT"

If the keys are typed too fast for the program to catch up (maybe you're typing into a serial program running at a low baud rate), you can increase the delay value from 100 to 500 (milliseconds) with --delay 500.
I set up a global hotkey with my window manager to run the above script.