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Clipboard β Copy & Paste
Read from and write to the system clipboard. Built into macOS, no install needed.
Commands
# Read clipboard contents
pbpaste
# Copy text to clipboard
echo "hello world" | pbcopy
# Copy file contents to clipboard
pbcopy < /path/to/file.txt
# Save clipboard to file
pbpaste > /path/to/output.txt
# Copy command output to clipboard
ls -la | pbcopy
date | pbcopy
# Transform clipboard content
pbpaste | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' | pbcopy # uppercase
pbpaste | sort | pbcopy # sort lines
pbpaste | wc -w # word count
# Copy with no trailing newline
printf "%s" "exact text" | pbcopy
Linux Equivalents
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