Show HN: Pbproxy – Send your clipboard anywhere you can ssh

Post by Noumenon72 » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 2:44 AM UTC

stock_toaster wrote: post #13

deathanatos wrote: post #5

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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…

Use a reverse port forward via ssh. ssh -R 127.0.0.1:2210:127.0.0.1:22 user@somemachine Of course you could instead add it to your ssh config along with agent forwarding.

    ssh user@host "cat foo.txt" | pbcopy