macOS command-line tools you might not know about

Post by lordgrenville » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 2:29 PM UTC

computerfriend wrote: post #79

inanutshellus wrote: post #20

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I love this flow! Such a powerful and clean way to solve text issues. # This will remove Windows double-spaced empty lines from your copy/paste buffer alias winlines="sed '/^$/{$!{N;s/\n//;};}'" # pbw = [P]aste [B]uffer to fix [W]indows line endings alias pbw="pbpaste | winlines | pbcopy" Also - if you want `pbpaste` and `pbcopy` on Linux... # imitate MacOS's paste buffer copy/paste: alias pbcopy='xsel --clipboard --…

Here's the xclip way (almost the same actually). alias pbcopy="xclip -selection clipboard" alias pbpaste="xclip -selection clipboard -o"

    alias open="xdg-open"

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 2:30 PM UTC

maleldil wrote: post #77

omginternets wrote: post #30

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If I had a nickel for each `cat foo.json | jq | pbcopy`, I'd be a rich man :)

That's a useless use of cat. You can use `jq . foo.json | pbcopy` or `jq < foo.json | pbcopy`.

Post by vram22 » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 2:31 PM UTC

kps wrote: post #19

pmarreck wrote: post #13

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I have linux/macos-agnostic bash functions in my dotfiles that unify this to “clip” and “paste” (since “copy” is too close semantically to “cp”)

paste(1) is a POSIX standard utility, though (going back to System III), pairing with cut(1). https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/p...

Post by svieira » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 2:35 PM UTC

pmarreck wrote: post #13

klausa wrote: post #8

`pbcopy` and `pbpaste` are one of my most-loved in the list. Dealing with some minified json, switching to iTerm, doing `pbpaste | json_pp | pbcopy` and having a clean output is _so_ nice.

I have linux/macos-agnostic bash functions in my dotfiles that unify this to “clip” and “paste” (since “copy” is too close semantically to “cp”)

    clip | tr '\n' ' ' | clip

    # Use clipboard in shell pipelines
    # clip | xargs echo           # uses pbpaste
    # ps -A | grep search | clip  # uses pbcopy
    clip() {
      [ -t 0 ] && pbpaste || pbcopy
    }

Post by wincy » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 2:35 PM UTC

agmm wrote: post #83

klausa wrote: post #8

`pbcopy` and `pbpaste` are one of my most-loved in the list. Dealing with some minified json, switching to iTerm, doing `pbpaste | json_pp | pbcopy` and having a clean output is _so_ nice.

I like to use `pbcopy` when exporting public keys to external services like GitHub. `cat ~/.ssh/mykey.pub | pbcopy`