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in MacOS, temporarily set the clipboard to something, and then set it back, using ruby
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| old=`pbpaste` | |
| `echo '#{ENV['THE_TEXT']}' | pbcopy` | |
| 3.downto(0) do |second| | |
| `osascript -e 'display notification "Reseting clipboard in #{second} seconds" with title "TMP Clipboard"'` | |
| sleep 1 | |
| end | |
| `echo '#{old}' | pbcopy` |
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| THE_TEXT='new text' ruby tmp-clipboard.rb & |
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