I use the command line a lot, even though I am on a graphical user-interface like Windows or macOS. And since I’m lazy, I write a lot of scripts to perform repetitive tasks. The downside of command-line is that there is no standard way to interact with GUI features. I stumbled across a command in macOS, recently that allows command line programs to copy/paste between the clipboard that we’re so used to using.
macOS pbpaste
and pbcopy
macOS has two commands, pbpaste
and pbcopy
, which “paste” from the pasteboard to stdout
and copies from stdin
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