Cross-platform pure POSIX shell implementation of the macOS utility pbcopy.
Pipe text to it to put that text on your system clipboard.
It works almost anywhere shell scripts can run (including local and remote Linux hosts, and tmux sessions), provided your terminal emulator supports the OSC52 escape sequence:
macos $ scp pbcopy linuxserver:
macos $ ssh linuxserver
linux $ chmod +x pbcopy
linux $ echo "foobar" | pbcopy
linux $ exit
macos $ pbpaste
foobar
Terminal emulators that support OSC52 include at least iTerm2 (enable "Applications in terminal may access clipboard" in Preferences) and alacritty.
Place pbcopy on your $PATH, e.g.
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mikepqr/pbcopy-sh/main/pbcopy -o ~/.local/bin/pbcopy && \
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/pbcopy
It's effectively a one-liner, but I wrapped it up in a very short script to make distribution and documentation easier.
Doesn't work inside neovim's terminal emulator (#3) or containers (#4)
- skaji/remote-pbcopy-iterm2 (go binary with perl and python alternatives)
- bottlerocketlabs/remote-pbcopy (fork of skaji/remote-pbcopy-iterm2, works in neovim's terminal emulator)
- osc52.sh (shell script for chromium OS)
xclip -selection clipboard(X11/Linux only, requires 5MB of dependencies)