I don't know if there's an equivalent for OSX but if you're running linux you can use x11 forwarding to do this: ssh -x example.com cat /var/log/syslog | g

I don't know if there's an equivalent for OSX but if you're running linux you can use x11 forwarding to do this: ssh -x example.com cat /var/log/syslog | grep event | xclip -i Your X clipboard will be shared with the host so the output will be placed into your local clipboard.