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clipboardRTF2HTML.sh
#!/bin/sh
# This script converts RTF text on the OS X clipboard to HTML.
osascript -e 'the clipboard as «class RTF »' | \
perl -ne 'print chr foreach unpack("C*",pack("H*",substr($_,11,-3)))' | \
textutil -format rtf -convert html -stdin -stdout | \
ruby -ne '@found=true if $_ =~ /<body>/; next unless @found; puts $_; exit if $_ =~ /<\/body>/' | \
grep -v "<body>" | \
grep -v "</body>" | \
pbcopy
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