CLIp v2

About

CLIp is a powerful yet easy to use and minimal clipboard manager for a command line environment, with no dependencies or bloat.

Usage

Syntax :

clip [operation] [clipboard name (optional)] [clipboard name (optional)]...

Operations :

1. c or copy : Copy stdin to clipboard(s)
2. a or append : Append stdin to clipboard(s)
3. p or paste : Paste clipboard(s) to stdout
4. r or remove : Remove clipboard(s)

Brief :

• CLIp reads from stdin when copying / appending and writes to stdout when pasting, so you'll use shell redirection operators.

• It takes arguments for the operation and , optionally, clipboard name(s).

• Clipboards are files on disk, so they have no limitations of type of data stored or filesize in and of themselves.

• It can create and save to named clipboards, and when given no names or given an empty argument ("") , it saves to the default clipboard , ".clipboard.clip" .

• Clipboards can be copied to (overwritten with new data), appended to (new data added at the end) , pasted from (write contents to stdout) and removed (file deleted).

Examples :

dmesg | clip c                 # Copy output of dmesg to default clipboard in current working directory (cwd)
lsblk | clip a "" drives       # Append output of lsblk to default clipboard and clipboard named drives in cwd
clip p | gzip > logs.zip       # Paste default clipboard in cwd to gzip
clip p drives > drive_log.txt  # Pipe clipboard named drives in cwd to drive_log.txt 
clip r "" drives	       # Remove the default clipboard and the clipboard named drives in the cwd