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2039 points Gadiguibou | 2 comments | 27 Jun 23 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.498s | source
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klausa ◴[27 Jun 23 12:42 UTC] No.36491947[source]▶
`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.

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lloeki ◴[27 Jun 23 14:35 UTC] No.36493457[source]▶
Another frequent use I have, applying random diffs with git:

    git diff | pbcopy
    pbpaste | git apply
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1. js2 ◴[27 Jun 23 14:37 UTC] No.36493493[source]▶
You can also use `git format-patch` and `git am` if you want to apply the same commit to multiple repos, a use-case I sometimes I have.
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2. verst ◴[27 Jun 23 18:43 UTC] No.36497014[source]▶
I should use `git format-patch` instead of creating a mock draft PR (which I end up deleting) and modifying the URL to add `.patch` and then downloading the patch file haha. `git format-patch` would probably be faster :)