echo "foo" | pbcopy
... puts "foo" on the clipboard"
pbpaste will print the contents of the clipboard to stdout.
-s-
On Friday, August 24, 2001, at 11:03 PM, Ken Williams wrote:
> Yo,
>
> I was just wondering whether anyone has found a way to store/retrieve
> items from the clipboard (copy,paste) from the Terminal. In other
> words, something like:
>
> % clip_copy file1.txt
>
> I didn't find anything in the TIL about it, but I could barely find my
> own ass in there, even if I knew what it looked like.
>
>
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