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Show HN: Pbproxy – Send your clipboard anywhere you can ssh
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There’s never a situation where I want to copy/paste to any clipboard other than my local clipboard, so I solved this by simply aliasing pbcopy/papaste to always SSH back to my mac and run pbcopy/pbpaste there.
One could perhaps set something up to forward a connection to a local daemon and then use that forwarded connection to push data backwards, but the complexity is going up, and fast.
There’s never a situation where I want to copy/paste to any clipboard other than my local clipboard, so I solved this by simply aliasing pbcopy/papaste to always SSH back to my mac and run pbcopy/pbpaste there.
But "where" is your mac? I.e., `cat clipboard | ssh ??? pbcopy`. I travel, so I don't always have the same IP address, and it's still too common to end up in a NAT'd hellscape with no usable IP. (Every office I've ever worked in, with one exception, has have v4-only NAT'd networks. Usually on a -PSK Wifi. Corp network infra is typically a joke.) One could perhaps set something up to forward a connection to a local da…
There’s never a situation where I want to copy/paste to any clipboard other than my local clipboard, so I solved this by simply aliasing pbcopy/papaste to always SSH back to my mac and run pbcopy/pbpaste there.
But "where" is your mac? I.e., `cat clipboard | ssh ??? pbcopy`. I travel, so I don't always have the same IP address, and it's still too common to end up in a NAT'd hellscape with no usable IP. (Every office I've ever worked in, with one exception, has have v4-only NAT'd networks. Usually on a -PSK Wifi. Corp network infra is typically a joke.) One could perhaps set something up to forward a connection to a local da…
I created a similar tool to help me synchronize my clipboard between my desktop and my laptop: https://github.com/b0o/clipshare