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Copy to clipboard from command line

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
$ pbpaste | grep foo #search the clipboard for foo

Handy.

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