/clipr

A simple, cross-platform clipboard program

Primary LanguageRust

Clipr

A simple clipboard program

Why

Clipboards on various platforms are a bit annoying to use. While you can

cat something.txt | clip.exe

on windows, you can't

clip.exe | something.txt

since the windows clipboard does not support it.

Similarly, on linux

cat something.txt | xclip -selection clipboard

is just a bit cumbersome to type.

I wanted a simple, cross-platform solution, which this is (hopefully).

Usage

cat something.txt | clipr
clipr | something_else.txt