clip-dump

#!/bin/bash

# This entire script was written by the circa 2022 public demo ChatGPT AI with the following prompt:
# "Write me a Bash script with 'safe mode' enabled, that dumps clipboard contents to a directory under $HOME/Clipboard in a .txt file named according to the current time in `%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S` format"
# This is both useful and terrifying
# Regardless, I'm going to take credit for it and say it's Copyleft (C) Alexandria P., under the GNU GPLv3

# Enable safe mode
set -euo pipefail

# Get the current time in the desired format
time=$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S)

# Create the directory to store the clipboard contents if it doesn't already exist
mkdir -p "$HOME/Clipboard"

# Dump the clipboard contents to a .txt file with the current time as the file name
xclip -selection clipboard -o > "$HOME/Clipboard/${time}.txt"

echo "Clipboard contents saved to $HOME/Clipboard/${time}.txt"