Comment by inanutshellus

3 years ago

I love this flow! Such a powerful and clean way to solve text issues.

    # This will remove Windows double-spaced empty lines from your copy/paste buffer
    alias winlines="sed '/^$/{$!{N;s/\n//;};}'"
    
    # pbw = [P]aste [B]uffer to fix [W]indows line endings
    alias pbw="pbpaste | winlines | pbcopy"

Also - if you want `pbpaste` and `pbcopy` on Linux...

    # imitate MacOS's paste buffer copy/paste:
    alias pbcopy='xsel --clipboard --input'
    alias pbpaste='xsel --clipboard --output'

4 comments

inanutshellus

computerfriend 3 years ago

Here's the xclip way (almost the same actually).

    alias pbcopy="xclip -selection clipboard"
    alias pbpaste="xclip -selection clipboard -o"

lordgrenville 3 years ago
I use this, and another Mac affordance I copy in Linux is
alias open="xdg-open"

lozf 3 years ago

There's `wl-copy` and `wl-paste` for Wayland users too, via https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard

netr0ute 3 years ago

And `cb` which works cross-platform, via https://github.com/Slackadays/clipboard