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MacOS command-line copy and paste
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Commands:

  • pbcopy - Copy to clipboard
  • pbpaste - Paste from clipboard

Example: Pipe filenames to clipboard

$ ls -1 | pbcopy

These commands are useful if copied text should be 100% the same as the output. Selecting and copying text in terminal always has more whitespace than needed or one or two characters are missing. So this is a perfect solution to avoid those.

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