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macOS command-line tools you might not know about

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2039 points Gadiguibou | 1 comments | 27 Jun 23 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | 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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danielagos ◴[27 Jun 23 20:33 UTC] No.36498271[source]▶
That sounds amazing, I always wanted to do that! Do you have a guide or some script to help with it? Otherwise, I will try to do it on my own.
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n8henrie ◴[28 Jun 23 04:44 UTC] No.36502413[source]▶
Happy to share, but I'm away from my MacBook for the next 2-3 weeks. I'll ping you when I have access to the code again.
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1. desro ◴[28 Jun 23 20:21 UTC] No.36512036[source]▶
I'm also super interested in this! I've had many amusing moments of instinctively typing either `pbcopy` or `pbpaste` on remote boxes followed by a brief moment of confusion when my local clipboard isn't updated :)