jukkatupamaki/macos-commandline-copy-paste.md

Last active February 20, 2020 11:36

Star () You must be signed in to star a gist
Fork () You must be signed in to fork a gist

Learn more about clone URLs
Clone this repository at <script src="https://gist.github.com/jukkatupamaki/6290d9e2e05b4f3595353ba8619444a4.js"></script>
Save jukkatupamaki/6290d9e2e05b4f3595353ba8619444a4 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.

Download ZIP

MacOS command-line copy and paste

Raw

macos-commandline-copy-paste.md

Commands:

pbcopy - Copy to clipboard
pbpaste - Paste from clipboard

Example: Pipe filenames to clipboard

$ ls -1 | pbcopy

These commands are useful if copied text should be 100% the same as the output. Selecting and copying text in terminal always has more whitespace than needed or one or two characters are missing. So this is a perfect solution to avoid those.