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In my Go language command line application, I need the ability to copy certain snippets of text to the system clipboard using Go. Basically something like PyperClip, but for Go.

I'm looking for a platform agnostic solution! Any help would be great :)

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One project (just for Windows and Mac) seems approaching what you want: atotto/clipboard.

Provide copying and pasting to the Clipboard for Go.

func ReadAll() (string, error)
func WriteAll(text string) error

Linux support is in this clipboard_linux.go class: a simple wrapper to xsel --output/input --clipboard system command.

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Another approach: try and take advantage of third-party libraries, like GLFW:

a free, Open Source, multi-platform library for opening a window, creating an OpenGL context and managing input

Its Go wrapper glfw3 does provide a clipboard.go file, with supposedly multi-platform methods.

func (w *Window) SetClipboardString(str string)
func (w *Window) GetClipboardString() (string, error)

But that would be in the context of GLFW windows, not any shell window of course.