Copy shell script output to clipboard

Question

Is there any easy way to implement the copy to clipboard option from the output of a shell script ?

Answer 1

You can use pbcopy which is native for Mac OS.

Try this command:

echo "variable" | pbcopy

it will copy the string "variable" into your clipboard.

Answer 2

You can use the xclip command.

 echo hello | xclip

Instructions for obtaining xclip are here.

Answer 3

echo prints a newline at the end as well. Incase anyone else hits the same issue, I used Mauro's approach but with the printf command so that it's just the string, no extra line:

For Mac:

printf "$YOUR_VAR" | pbcopy

Answer 4

That may depend on the environment you're using. With Gnome at least (I haven't tried the others but it may work), you can pipe your output as follows:

echo 123 | xclip
echo 123 | xclip -sel clip

The first goes to the mouse clipboard, the second to the "normal" clipboard.

Answer 5

If you do that on Windows 10 LXXS Ubuntu bash you can do

echo "What so ever..." |clip.exe