#pbcopy

[365jenna]

Day 101: pbcopy

Sometimes you want to have the result of a program or shell script to paste to your clipboard. On a Mac, the command pbcopy lets you do that. You just need to pipe the information to pbcopy.

As an example: python example45.py | pbcopy

Whatever would print in the console will now be on the clipboard. Nifty, right?

[tactechs]

pbcopy is a neat tool. If you want to copy the contents of a file:

pbcopy < $FILE

If you want to copy the result of some command line trickery

look cam | egrep p.s | pbcopy

[stupidterminaloneliners-blog]

Extract columns from tables

…like the ones you get on Wikipedia Each column in the table is tab-delineated when you copy and paste it as plain text. Just change the "$2" to "$ whatever column you want to extract" and this one-liner will tidy up whatever's copied into your clipboard for you.

pbpaste | awk 'BEGIN{ FS="\t";}{print $2}' | pbcopy