Pbcopy and pbpaste is just a small trick, but very useful in my day-to-day work. Or, process the copied content AND copy the new content with pbcopy. Or, process the copied content before saving it. For example, you can save the copied content into a file. You can echo the copied content by pbpaste. Now you can ⌘-V the copied content anywhere. However, this seemingly simple task could be very annoying because scroll-and-highlight isn't so straight-forward sometimes.Ī much simpler way is to pipe the output to pbcopy. One way is to cat /path/to/file, and use your mouse/trackpad to scroll and highlight the content, then press ⌘-C to copy. Type Paste & Match Style for the Menu Title box, then Cmd + V in the Keyboard shortcut box. ![]() Imagine that you want to copy the content of a file that has more than 1,000 lines on the terminal. ![]() ![]() Today I want to introduce you the pbcopy and pbpaste commands, for macOS exclusively. Every of us knows copy & paste by ⌘-C and ⌘-V.
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