cb - A leak-proof tee to the clipboard - Unify the copy and paste commands into one intelligent chainable command.

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cb

A leak-proof tee to the clipboard

This script is modeled after tee (see man tee).

It's like your normal copy and paste commands, but unified and able to sense when you want it to be chainable

Examples

Copy

$ date | cb
# clipboard contains: Tue Jan 24 23:00:00 EST 2017

Paste

# clipboard retained from the previous block
$ cb
Tue Jan 24 23:00:00 EST 2017
$ cb | cat
Tue Jan 24 23:00:00 EST 2017
$ cb > foo
$ cat foo
Tue Jan 24 23:00:00 EST 2017

Chaining

$ date | cb | tee updates.log
Tue Jan 24 23:11:11 EST 2017
$ cat updates.log
Tue Jan 24 23:11:11 EST 2017
# clipboard contains: Tue Jan 24 23:11:11 EST 2017

cb (for Cygwin)

#!/bin/bash

if [[ -p /dev/stdin ]]; then # stdin is a pipe
    cat > /dev/clipboard # so send it to the clipboard
    if [[ ! -t 1 ]]; then # also, stdout is not a tty (meaning it must be a pipe or redirection)
        cat /dev/clipboard # so pass that pipe/redirection the content of the clipboard (enables `man tee` like chaining)
    fi
else # stdin is not a pipe
    cat /dev/clipboard # so output the clipboard
fi

cb (for Linux)

#!/bin/bash

if [[ -p /dev/stdin ]]; then # stdin is a pipe
    cat | xclip -selection clipboard # so send it to the pasteboard
    if [[ ! -t 1 ]]; then # also, stdout is not a tty (meaning it must be a pipe or redirection)
        xclip -selection clipboard -o # so pass that pipe/redirection the content of the pasteboard (enables `man tee` like chaining)
    fi
else # stdin is not a pipe
    xclip -selection clipboard -o # so output the pasteboard
fi

cb (for OSX)

#!/bin/bash

if [[ -p /dev/stdin ]]; then # stdin is a pipe
    cat | pbcopy # so send it to the pasteboard
    if [[ ! -t 1 ]]; then # also, stdout is not a tty (meaning it must be a pipe or redirection)
        pbpaste # so pass that pipe/redirection the content of the pasteboard (enables `man tee` like chaining)
    fi
else # stdin is not a pipe
    pbpaste # so output the pasteboard
fi