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Copy to clipboard from command line

In Computers, Mac on Nov 25 2008. 1 comment. Add your own.

I just discovered a couple useful command-line tools on OSX and thought I’d share. pbcopy will copy stdin to the clipboard and pbpaste will send the clipboard to stdout.

$ cat somefile.txt | pbcopy #copy a file to the clipboard
$ grep foo < pbpaste #search the clipboard for foo

Handy.

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One Response to “Copy to clipboard from command line”

  1. pc accessories
    15 Jan 2009
    1:00 am

    Nice article, i love it, thanks for sharing

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