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Comment by Towaway69

13 hours ago

On Mac you can use pbcopy to copy something your pasteboard aka clipboard.

So the first command becomes:

   tar -cz dir | base64 | pbcopy

And of course you can use pbpaste for the inverse. Doesn’t work over SSH though, which is almost certainly how you’d be using this.

  • True that unless ssh tunnels the pasteboard nowadays ;)

    GP was doing this using GUI and TUI so it's a case of having two terminals open to two different machines I assume.