If you are using Linux with graphical X interface and need to copy to the clipboard, the ‘xclip‘ utility works similar to ‘pbcopy’ on a Mac terminal and will place the content unto your clipboard.
Here is the basic usage:
sudo apt install xclip -y # copies to clipboard echo "hello" | xclip -selection clipboard # grabs from clipboard xclip -selection clipboard -o
If you want to avoid typing the ‘-selection clipboard’ flag every time, then create an alias loaded with your profile.
alias xclip='xclip -selection clipboard'
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