Can't find xclip in Darwin 64 out-of-the-box.

AFAICT by googling: macos xclip
…X11 is a prerequisite for xclip.

Interesting article here:
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/08/08/fix-apples-copy-and-paste-problem-on-the-mac-and-ios-with-these-tools
suggesting that Apple has made heavy weather out of a comparatively simple
coding task, which you'd expect to be part of Foundation SDK.

On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 01:11, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:

> There is a small command line utility called xclip. Probably not installed
> by default, so it needs to be installed from distro or homebrew .
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2020, 12:29 AM Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > That works for me too (under jqt)
> >
> >
> >    clipwrite 'alpha bravo'
> >
> > 11
> >
> >    clipread''
> >
> > alpha bravo
> >
> >    clipread
> >
> > clipread_jqtide_
> >
> >    clipwrite
> >
> > clipwrite_jqtide_
> >
> >    clipwrite_jqtide_
> >
> > 3 : 0
> >
> > txt=. boxj2utf8 flatten ":y
> >
> > wd 'clipcopy *',txt
> >
> > #txt
> >
> > )
> >
> >    JVERSION
> >
> > Engine: j901/j64avx2/darwin
> >
> > Release-e: commercial/2020-01-29T12:41:32
> >
> > Library: 9.01.18
> >
> > Qt IDE: 1.8.5/5.12.6
> >
> > Platform: Darwin 64
> >
> > Installer: J901 install
> >
> > InstallPath: /applications/j901
> >
> > Contact: www.jsoftware.com
> >
> >
> > BUT...
> >
> >
> > Henry asked for Linux too. On macOS that should correspond to jconsole
> > running on Darwin.
> >
> > But I cannot discover how to use the clipboard with jconsole…
> >
> >
> >    clipread
> >
> > |value error: clipread
> >
> >    wd
> >
> > |value error: wd
> >
> >    11!:0 'clipcopy alpha bravo'
> >
> > |domain error
> >
> > |       11!:0'clipcopy alpha bravo'
> >
> >    11!:0 'clippaste'
> >
> > |domain error
> >
> > |       11!:0'clippaste'
> >
> >    11!:0 ''
> >
> > |domain error
> >
> > |       11!:0''
> >
> >
> >
> >    JVERSION
> >
> > Engine: j901/j64avx2/darwin
> >
> > Release-e: commercial/2020-01-29T12:41:32
> >
> > Library: 9.01.18
> >
> > Platform: Darwin 64
> >
> > Installer: J901 install
> >
> > InstallPath: /applications/j901
> >
> > Contact: www.jsoftware.com
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 16:58, Clifford Reiter <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I've mostly transitioned to clipread and clipwrite (PC)
> > >
> > > clipread
> > >
> > > clipread_jqtide_
> > >
> > > clipwrite
> > >
> > > clipwrite_jqtide_
> > >
> > > clipwrite_jqtide_
> > >
> > > 3 : 0
> > >
> > > txt=. boxj2utf8 flatten ":y
> > >
> > > wd 'clipcopy *',txt
> > >
> > > #txt
> > >
> > > )
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 11:48 AM Brian Schott <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ian,
> > > >
> > > > You are correct; I was wrong. I did copy wrong.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > (B=)
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