Sometimes I want to get something into the system clipboard without using a mouse, like wanting the entire contents of a file in the clipboard, but without the odd linebreaks that text editors are prone to inserting all on their own.
I discovered the 'pbcopy' and 'pbpaste' tools, which are just perfect.
$ echo "blah" | pbcopy
Now "blah" is in my clipboard. I can Command-V in any window, and there it is.
I can also manipulate the contents of the clipboard in any script with 'pbpaste'
$ pbpaste | wc -l
I just counted the number of lines of text in the clipboard. Yay!
http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/751/mac-os-x-copy-and-paste-t...
