copy files and directories to clipboard. paste in a terminal window.

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#!/bin/bash

if [[ $# -lt 1 ]]; then
	echo "${0} - copy selfextracting archive of files to clipboard."
	echo ""
	echo "Syntax: $0 <file(s)>"
	exit 1
fi

TEMPFILE=$(mktemp)
out=$(which xclip 2>/dev/null || echo '/bin/cat')
(
	echo -n 'echo "'
	tar -c -j --exclude-vcs -f - ${@} | base64 -w0 #$(tput cols)
	echo '"| base64 -d - | tar xjvf -'
) | tee ${TEMPFILE} | ${out} && \
echo "Copied self extracting archive of ${@} to clipboard. ($(du -h ${TEMPFILE}|cut -f1))" && \
rm -f ${TEMPFILE}