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#! /usr/bin/env ruby
 
# file: ~/bin/c
#
# usage: highlight lines and pipe them to stdout in your editor.  nothing
# changes except they are copied to your paste buffer.  should be modified to
# work with linux using xclip

$VERBOSE=nil
STDOUT.sync = true
STDERR.sync = true


unless ARGV.empty?
  buf = ARGF.read
  STDOUT.write buf
else
  buf = ''
  begin
    while((c = STDIN.readpartial(1)))
      print c
      buf << c
    end
  rescue EOFError
    :ignore
  end
end

fork{ fork{ IO.popen('pbcopy', 'w'){|fd| fd.write buf} }; exit!(0)  }

exit(0)