xsel -o 等效于 OS X

Question

Is there an equivalent solution to grab selected text in OS X as 'xsel -o' works for Linux?

Just need the current selection so I can use the text in shell script.

Cheers, Erik

Answer 1

You can probably install xsel on MacOS. (UPDATE: According to Arkku's comment, that will only work if you have the X11 server running and synchronized to the OS X pasteboard.)

If not, a quick Google search turns up pbcopy / pbpaste , which apparently is pre-installed.

Link: https://github.com/raymontag/keepassc/issues/59

Answer 2

The Linux tool xsel is not required as pbcopy and pbpaste are Apple command line utilities that provide this functionality and are installed by default on macOS.

From the manual page ( man pbcopy ):

pbcopy, pbpaste - provide copying and pasting to the pasteboard (the Clipboard) from command line

pbcopy takes the standard input and places it in the specified pasteboard. If no pasteboard is specified, the general pasteboard will be used by default. The input is placed in the pasteboard as plain text data unless it begins with the Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file header or the Rich Text Format (RTF) file header, in which case it is placed in the pasteboard as one of those data types.

pbpaste removes the data from the pasteboard and writes it to the standard output. It normally looks first for plain text data in the pasteboard and writes that to the standard output; if no plain text data is in the pasteboard it looks for Encapsulated PostScript; if no EPS is present it looks for Rich Text. If none of those types is present in the pasteboard, pbpaste produces no output.

To copy filename.txt to the clipboard, use the following:

pbcopy < filename.txt