Clipboard

Cut, copy, and paste absolutely anything anywhere you want, all from the comfort of your terminal! This is the missing clipboard system for the command line.

• Zero-bloat: Clipboard rings in at mere kilobytes on most platforms.
• Zero-config: Clipboard infers everything out of the box.
• Zero-effort: Clipboard is carefully designed to be friendly to newbies and power users alike.
• Zero-dependency: Clipboard works on any up-to-date Windows, Linux, Android, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, or OpenIndiana system, or anything that supports C++20, all with ZERO dependencies. Yes, really!
• Zero-legacy: Clipboard carries zero (0) legacy baggage from the software of yore.
• Universal: Clipboard supports English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Turkish locales.
• A time-saver: Clipboard frees you from ugly, temporary directories and memorizing file locations!

How To Use

In all commands, you can substitute cb for clipboard. Add a number to the end of the action to choose which clipboard you want to use (the default is 0).

clipboard copy (file) [files]

Examples:

cb copy foo.txt launchcodes.doc
clipboard copy1 MyDirectory
cb copy800 bar.conf AnotherDirectory baz.txt

clipboard cut (file) [files]

Examples:

cb cut bar.txt baz.docx
clipboard cut5 MyDirectory
cb cut69 bar.conf AnotherDirectory baz.txt

Paste

clipboard paste

Pipe In

(something) | clipboard [copy]

Pipe Out

clipboard [paste] | (something)

clipboard [paste] > (some file)

Show Contents

clipboard show

Clear

clipboard clear

Quick Installation

Clone, Configure, & Compile

git clone https://github.com/slackadays/Clipboard
cmake Clipboard
cmake --build .

Install

Platforms where you have sudo to install software (Linux, macOS, *BSD, OI):

sudo cmake --install .

OpenBSD:

doas cmake --install .

Windows:

cmake --install .

Uninstall

Platforms where you have sudo to uninstall software (Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OI):

sudo xargs rm < install_manifest.txt

OpenBSD:

doas xargs rm < install_manifest.txt

Windows:

This is currently WIP

AUR Install

Arch-Linux users can install the clipboard, clipboard-bin, or clipboard-git AUR package.

Painless Documentation

Click here to go the Clipboard Wiki.

Fast Support

Click here to go to our Discord group.