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Copying File Contents To System Paste Buffer

unix Written December 20, 2015

If you need to copy and paste the contents of a file, the pbcopy command can be one of the best ways to accomplish this. Simply cat the file and pipe that into pbcopy to get the contents of the file into the system paste buffer.

$ cat some-file.txt | pbcopy

See man pbcopy for more details.

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