Ruby pbcopy and pbpaste
pbcopy
and pbcopy
are two handy Mac OS X command line utilities to copy and paste content to the Clipboard.
The following Ruby methods provides access to the same utility using Ruby.
def pbcopy(input)
str = input.to_s
IO.popen('pbcopy', 'w') { |f| f << str }
str
end
def pbpaste
`pbpaste`
end
To make them available in IRB, add them to your ~/.irbrc
file.
Written by Simone Carletti
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This doesn't seem to work for me. Is there anything special you need to do for mavericks? Thanks!
over 1 year ago
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