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Mac OS: pbpaste & pbcopy For instance: pbpaste | fgrep -i "`pbpaste -pboard find`" To search the copy clipboard with the find clipboard.

• greyfade 13y ago
  On X11 systems, there's also xclip: xclip -o -selection clipboard
  • deathanatos 13y ago
    There's also xsel, which seems to be installed by default more often than xclip. … | xsel -b # Copy. xsel -b | … # Paste.
• dredmorbius 13y ago
  I first ran into clipboard copy/paste on Mac. Discovered "xclip" on Linux. Aliased copy to 'xc' and paste to 'xp', later added 'xpc' to paste from the secondary (application) clipboard. Makes all sorts of hackery possible.
• FigBug 13y ago
  In 2005 I wrote similar utilities for windows called ccopy, ccut & ppaste. I recently dug them up and put them on GitHub. https://github.com/FigBug/ccopyppaste https://github.com/FigBug/ccopyppaste