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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3 replies on “Copy to clipboard from command line”
Nice article, i love it, thanks for sharing
grep foo < pbpaste doesn't do what you think it does.
Thanks Marcelo, I fixed the example.