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How to copy bash script output to clipboard?
The first goes to the mouse clipboard, the second to the “normal” clipboard. You can use pbcopy which is native for Mac OS. it will copy the string “variable” into your clipboard. If you do that on Windows 10 LXXS Ubuntu bash you can do following command, working also on WSL2.
How do I copy a POSIX path to a clipboard?
If you want it to copy as quoted, you can change POSIX path to quoted form of POSIX path. You can add a keyboard shortcut for the service by going to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts, then click on “Services” in the left pane, then scroll down to the “General” section in the right pane until you find your service.
How do I copy a file to the clipboard?
Basically it leads you through the steps of creating an Automator service that can be used to copy the full path of files and folders from the Finder. You then use it by assigning a custom hotkey or use the right-click menu to copy the path to the clipboard when a file or folder is selected.
Is there a way to pip clipboard to WSL?
The other way around piping the Windows clipboard to WSL can be done with help of the PowerShell. It has a command called Get-Clipboard and a nice short alias gcb. You can use the xclip command. Instructions for obtaining xclip are here. echo prints a newline at the end as well.
How to copy and paste files in Bash?
I think the ~- is the right answer, but note that bash has a built-in line editor that can copy/paste text. If you are in emacs mode you can recall your cd command from the history, and use Control-u to kill the line into the bash “clipboard” called the kill-ring (there are other ways too).
How to use a clipboard in command line?
NAME xclip – command line interface to X selections (clipboard) SYNOPSIS xclip [OPTION] [FILE]… DESCRIPTION Reads from standard in, or from one or more files, and makes the data available as an X selection for pasting into X applications. Prints current X selection to standard out. Also visit xsel.
How to copy and past files in command line?
It provides commands like ccopy, ccut and cpaste that use the desktop environment clipboard and allow intuitive copy / pasting of files: As the desktop environment clipboard is used, the copy/pasting will interact with the files put on clipboard in other programs like file managers and IDE’s.