Accessing the clipboard from OS X command-line


pbcopy and pbpaste are the OS X alternatives to the POSIX tool xclip.

pbcopy takes the standard input and places it in the specified paste-board. If no pasteboard is specified, the general pasteboard will be used by default.

pbpaste removes the data from the pasteboard and writes it to the standard output.

For example:

user@host:~/Projects/some/dir/that/is/long$ pwd | pbcopy

The working directory is now in your system clipboard, available for you to paste somewhere.

Additional links

  1. pbcopy / pbpaste in OS X
  2. Clipboard access from shell (utf-8)
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