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macOS command-line tools you might not know about

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2039 points Gadiguibou | 5 comments | 27 Jun 23 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 1.314s | 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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n8henrie ◴[27 Jun 23 19:05 UTC] No.36497293[source]▶
So much of my Linux use is over ssh from a MacOS client that I've made a `pbcopy` executable that just pipes stdin over ssh to my MacBook to its pbcopy (with a dedicated ssh key that runs this as a forced command). Makes it super nice to be on an SSH session and `pbcopy` some content to my MacOS clipboard!
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1. SushiHippie ◴[28 Jun 23 02:55 UTC] No.36501708[source]▶
You might want to have a look at osc52
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2. n8henrie ◴[28 Jun 23 04:43 UTC] No.36502405[source]▶
I have! Unfortunately not supported in MacOS Terminal.app, which I'm otherwise very satisfied with (have tried iTerm2, use Alacritty on Linux, just like Terminal.app).
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3. athrun ◴[28 Jun 23 15:08 UTC] No.36507571[source]▶
Simply wrap your shell with osc52pty to get OSC52 support in Terminal.app

https://github.com/roy2220/osc52pty

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4. n8henrie ◴[29 Jun 23 05:54 UTC] No.36516847{3}[source]▶
I don't think wrapping my entire shell session in a moderately complex third party tool (that maybe just uses pbcopy under the hood[1]) counts as "simply" when compared to my existing solution which just pipes over ssh and a couple bash scripts.

But thank you for the share, it is interesting!

[1]: https://github.com/roy2220/osc52pty/blob/master/oscexecutor....

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5. athrun ◴[29 Jun 23 15:17 UTC] No.36521545{4}[source]▶
This tool isn’t doing anything particularly complex. It sets up a new pty, attaches the child process to it, listens for OSC52 control codes, and calls pbcopy when appropriate.

You can wrap your ssh session with it and you’re done.

It’s very elegant and multiple orders of magnitude less complex than something like tmux.