cb

Clipboard managers warper written in POSIX sh

💡 About

cb is a clipboard managers warper written in POSIX sh that wraps various system-specific tools for interacting with a system clipboard. This is literally a port of clipboard.zsh plugin from Oh My Zsh as a stand alone utility.

✨ Features

• Work with tee like pipeline (e.g: ls | cb | grep -e 'string')
• Supported clipboard managers are:
  • pbcopy, pbpaste
  • cygwin
  • wl-clipboard
  • xclip
  • xsel
  • lemonade
  • doitclient
  • win32yank
  • termux-api
  • tmux

📥 Installation

🔧 Manually

curl https://codeberg.org/NNB/cb/raw/branch/main/bin/cb > ~/.local/bin/cb
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/cb

📦 Package manager

For Bpkg user:

bpkg install NNBnh/cb

For Basher user:

basher install NNBnh/cb

Note If you can and want to port cb to other package managers, feel free to do so.

⌨️ Usage

Copy STRING to clipboard:

cb STRING

echo STRING | cb

Copy file's data to clipboard:

cb < file.txt

Paste from clipboard:

cb

Pipe clipboard string to other tool:

cb | other-tool

💌 Credits

Special thanks to:

• clipboard.zsh from Oh My Zsh