terminal output to clipboard
pbcopy, pbpaste - provide copying and pasting to the pasteboard (the
Clipboard) from command lineOSX has a neat command line app, pbcopy that takes any input and sticks it into the clipboard. Handy if you want to take some terminal output and work with it in a windowed application.
To use, simply pipe your output into pbcopy:
ls -l | pbcopyThe output of your ls command is now on the clipboard for you to paste wherever needed.
Written by Allan Kent
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In Linux, it's called xclip. And pbcopy doesn't work through tmux unless you
brew install reattach-to-user-namespaceand add
set-option -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l zsh" # or bashto your ~/.tmux.conf.
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