** Description changed: This is not a bug report but request for enhancement. Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't have pbcopy & pbpaste commands. Mac users can use two commands, pbcopy and pbpaste, to work with clipbopard in their scripts. No such "easy to use" solution is available at Linux! Could be pbcopy and pbpaste commands implemented at Linux? That will make migration of Mac user to Linux World easier... ;-) There are several articles how to implement pbcopy and pbpaste at Linux, most of them use "alias", something like this: ``` # mimic osx pbcopy/pbpaste alias pbcopy="xclip -selection clipboard -i" alias pbpaste="xclip -selection clipboard -o" ``` or ``` alias pbcopy='xsel --clipboard --input' alias pbpaste='xsel --clipboard --output' ``` I think that alias commands cannot be used in shell script, right? Is it possible to implement pbcopy and pbpaste in the way to be usable in scripts too? These commands could be included in "xclip" package. BTW, pbcopy and pbpaste are binary executable files at OS X. NOTE: Even archaic OS like Windows has CLI commands to work with clipboard data. DOS has command CLIP.EXE that writes data to clipboard and this command can be even used from scripts in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). DOS has no command to read data from clipboard. PowerShell has full support for clipboard, it can read and write clipboard data - with commands Get-Clipboard and Set-Clipboard. + with commands Get-Clipboard and Set-Clipboard (aliases can be used, gcb + and scb).
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