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clipb

Clipboard managers warper that SuperB

💡 About

clipb is a SuperB clipboard managers warper written in portable sh that wraps various system-specific tools for interacting with a system clipboard.

📔 Story

When switch around Wayland and X.org, i realise my shell scripts that copy/paste text to and from clipboard are broken. So i strip the kakboard-autodetect function out into a standalone CLI clipboard managers warper call clipb to detect and interacting with any system clipboard.

Note Checkout clipb.kak, an extremely strip down fork of Kakboard.

✨ Features

• Work with tee like pipeline (e.g: ls | clipb | grep -e 'string')
• Supported clipboard managers are:
  • wl-clipboard
  • xclip
  • xsel
  • pbcopy, pbpaste
  • cygwin's /dev/clipboard
  • termux-api

🚀 Setup

🧾 Dependencies

• Unix commands to process
• wl-clipboard for Wayland
• xclip or xsel for X.org
• termux-api for Termux

📥 Installation

🔧 Manually

Option 1: using curl

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NNBnh/clipb/main/bin/clipb > ~/.local/bin/clipb
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/clipb

Option 2: using git

git clone https://github.com/NNBnh/clipb.git ~/.local/share/clipb
ln -s ~/.local/share/clipb/bin/clipb ~/.local/bin/clipb

📦 Package manager

For Bpkg user:

bpkg install NNBnh/clipb

For Basher user:

basher install NNBnh/clipb

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

⌨️ Usage

Copy TEXTS to clipboard:

clipb copy TEXTS

Paste from clipboard:

clipb paste

💌 Credits

Special thanks to:

• Kakboard by Zach Peltzer
• Vis-clipboard by Marc André Tanner

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Made with ❤️ by NNB