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macOS command-line tools you might not know about

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2039 points Gadiguibou | 4 comments | 27 Jun 23 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.23s | source
1. ksala_ ◴[27 Jun 23 13:13 UTC] No.36492229[source]▶
Since you mention both pbcopy and iTerm - I love https://github.com/skaji/remote-pbcopy-iterm2. I do most of the work on a remove Linux server, treating my MacBook as mostly a dumb terminal, and being able to transparently copy from the remove to my local clipboard is so nice.
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2. whartung ◴[27 Jun 23 13:56 UTC] No.36492827[source]▶
I’ll have to try that. More than once I’ve been logged in to a remote host and got “pbcopy not found” “What!?… oh, right.“
3. tstack ◴[27 Jun 23 14:12 UTC] No.36493067[source]▶
The tmux integration in iterm is also very nice for remote work if you haven’t tried it out.
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4. ksala_ ◴[27 Jun 23 16:10 UTC] No.36494830[source]▶
I have tried it, but for whatever reason I just don't like it. I prefer just running tmux in iTerm with no integration.

On the topic, you can also integrate tmux with the native clipboard - I have set copy-pipe to the remote pbcopy, so any selection done in tmux get copied to my local clipboard. I also just found out that tmux also support it natively (https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Clipboard#the-set-clipboar...).