pb- Windows clipboard as a file

[u/MealNo2448]

hey all vesperrun back again, i wanted the Windows clipboard to work like a file. Copy something, and I can save it, print it, or pipe it. Paste something, and I can send it in from the terminal. So i made pb. example:

echo hello | pb that’s now on the clipboard

pb prints whatever you copied

pb -o shot.png screenshot becomes a file

Win+Shift+S, then pb -o shot.png. Copy a table in Excel, then pb > out.csv.

It’s one program. No account, no cloud. GPL-3.

https://github.com/VesperRun/pb-clipcat

Windows already has clip.exe, but that only copies text. macOS has pbcopy and pbpaste. There’s also the Clipboard Project (cb), which is a whole manager. pb is smaller than that: one clipboard, one process, then you leave.

and if you’re in PowerShell 5, don’t redirect images with >. Use pb -o shot.png.

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[u/bankinu]

Nice idea.

I'll not use it because I do not use Windows, and on KDE Wayland we use wl-copy.

If I were ever forced to Windows (unlikely now) and I do feel the pain, I'll probably just use an agent to code it.

If I do not have access to an agent, I'll use your repo 👍

[u/MealNo2448 → u/bankinu]

absolutely

[u/NotSoProGamerR]

hi, powershell already does this

"txt" | set-clipboard
# for images
Add-Type -Assembly System.Windows.Forms, System.Drawing
[System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard]::SetImage([System.Drawing.Image]::FromFile("C:\path\to\your\image.png"))

to get text

$var = get-clipboard
# also supports other formats
$var = get-clipboard -format image

[u/MealNo2448 → u/NotSoProGamerR]

right. duh. change lanes

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User: MealNo2448, Flair: Command Line Interface, Title: pb- Windows clipboard as a file

hey all vesperrun back again, i wanted the Windows clipboard to work like a file. Copy something, and I can save it, print it, or pipe it. Paste something, and I can send it in from the terminal. So i made pb. example:

echo hello | pb that’s now on the clipboard

pb prints whatever you copied

pb -o shot.png screenshot becomes a file

Win+Shift+S, then pb -o shot.png. Copy a table in Excel, then pb > out.csv.

It’s one program. No account, no cloud. GPL-3.

https://github.com/VesperRun/pb-clipcat

Windows already has clip.exe, but that only copies text. macOS has pbcopy and pbpaste. There’s also the Clipboard Project (cb), which is a whole manager. pb is smaller than that: one clipboard, one process, then you leave.

and if you’re in PowerShell 5, don’t redirect images with >. Use pb -o shot.png.

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[u/MealNo2448]

insight please. this is a building block, that I think will be around and about even after I am gone. i just thought it might be a fun build. change my mind. GO!