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in MacOS, temporarily set the clipboard to something, and then set it back, using ruby
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file.rb
old=`pbpaste`
`echo '#{ENV['THE_TEXT']}' | pbcopy`
3.downto(0) do |second|
`osascript -e 'display notification "Reseting clipboard in #{second} seconds" with title "TMP Clipboard"'`
sleep 1
end
`echo '#{old}' | pbcopy`
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invocation.sh
THE_TEXT='new text' ruby tmp-clipboard.rb &
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