How do I capture bash output to the Mac OS X clipboard?

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Macos Problem Overview

Is it possible to capture bash output to the OS X clipboard?

Macos Solutions

Solution 1 - Macos

The pbcopy command does this.

For example, this puts the output from ls on the clipboard/pasteboard:

ls | pbcopy

And pbpaste does the reverse, writing to stdout from the clipboard:

pbpaste > ls.txt

You can use both together to filter content on the clipboard - here's a rot13:

pbpaste | tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M' | pbcopy

Solution 2 - Macos

In case you want to capture error messages, this will work:

cmd 2>&1  | pbcopy

Solution 3 - Macos

You can do this using the pbcopy command:

pbcopy < ./path/to/file/or/output/stream
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