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By Abhishek Ghosh January 10, 2014 2:56 pm Updated on October 17, 2014

Copy and Paste to and from a Text file in Command Line in OS X

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Copy and Paste to and from a Text file in Command Line in OS X – yes, this is why we have the option in Syntax Highlighter to make it plain text or copy to clipboard! That is the basic reason to make the Syntax Highlighter Plugins a bit heavy – small point, but increases the speed of work! Even if you do not need this usage, but definitely you will be interested about our Copy and Paste to and from a Text file in Command Line guide, because – simply we need it!

 

Copy and Paste to and from a Text file in Command Line in OS X : Basics

 

Copy and Paste to and from a Text file in Command Line in OS X – Means, it has two parts (i) Copy from TXT or (in case it is applicable) Clipboard to CLI and (ii) The reverse – dumping the output to a Text file.

We are not going to the basic details of UNIX, Command Line Etc. – you can search our website to get most of them.

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Copy and Paste to and from a Text file in Command Line in OS X : The Guide

 

Copy and Paste to and from a Text file in Command Line in OS X

Actually, you will get all the methods in UNIX command references, GNU Linux References and on Apple Docs. Several way exists.

pbcopy and pbpaste

pbcopy and pbpaste replace non-ASCII characters with question marks in some environments. It can be avoided by setting LC_CTYPE to UTF-8 :

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LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 pbpaste

Run the command to get the manual on Terminal :

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man pbpaste

Simply, typing pbpaste means the practical work of hitting command + v keys without execution of the command (nulled by %). If you want to paste from a text file to CLI, then the command will be :

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pbcopy < file.txt

In the reverse way, if you change the sign < to > then the things will get copied to a text file (dumping) :

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pbcopy > file.txt

As people copy paste the command ‘s usage too in blogs (funny, no?), they only shows the partial command as pbcopy > file.txt ! Actually, there are huge usages and functions :

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pbcopy.1.html

osascript

This is an example to Copy text to the clipboard from the OSX terminal :

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osascript -e 'on run {input}
set the clipboard to input
end' "ä"
 
osascript -e 'the clipboard as text'

Ref : https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/osascript.1.html

Using pipes like in GNU Linux

Actually, UNIX per se doesn’t have a clipboard. Some editors or GUI interfaces support the above things (Apple’s in our case). This is actually a big chapter itself. We will discuss it in details in future. We can copy paste dot files from repo like Github in this way.

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "Copy and Paste to and from a Text file in Command Line in OS X," in The Customize Windows, January 10, 2014, May 22, 2022, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2014/01/copy-and-paste-to-and-from-a-text-file-in-command-line-in-os-x/.

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