[PLUG] OS X coolness: pbcopy and alpine
Paul Mullen
pm at nellump.net
Tue Sep 3 18:44:53 UTC 2013
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 11:18:40AM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> One of the neatest command-line tools in OS X is pbcopy (aka
> Pasteboard Copy), which allows you to pipe stuff into the copy/paste
> buffer. Its output counterpart is pbpaste.
>
> So pbcopy allows you do to cool stuff like
>
> grep thisfile.txt | awk '{neat operation}' | pbcopy
>
> Then you can paste it anywhere.
'xclip' on Linux (and presumably other Unix-like systems) works
similarly. It combines both setting and getting into one command,
though. From the README:
Copy your uptime into the selection for pasting:
uptime | xclip
Copy your password file for pasting:
xclip /etc/passwd
Save some text you have Edit | Copied in a web browser:
xclip -o -sel clip > webpage.txt
Open a URL selected in an email client
mozilla `xclip -o`
Copy XA_PRIMARY to XA_CLIPBOARD
xclip -o | xclip -sel clip
Tools like these are very handy for CLI junkies living in a GUI world.
--
Paul
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