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Using clipboard from shell in MacOS.md

Using clipboard from shell in MacOS

Copy standard output to the clipboard

cat file.txt | pbcopy

Capture from standard error to the clipboard

cmd 2>&1 | pbcopy

Capture from stream to the clipboard

pbcopy < /file/to/stream

Paste from the clipboard

pbpaste > cat file.txt
pbpaste | tee file.txt

Filter content on the clipboard

# ROT-13 a text
pbpaste | tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M' | pbcopy
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