Copy command line output to the clipboard on Mac and Windows

Published: 2018-10-12 | Lastmod: 2019-05-08
Tags: command-line, mac, windows

In each example below, the contents of a file are copied to the clipboard.

Mac

cat <file> | pbcopy

type <file> | clip

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