I wanted a good utility to manipulate the system clipboard from the bash shell. Turns out OS X has this really cool ability built-in. Two commands, pbcopy (copy TO clipboard) and pbpaste (paste FROM clipboard) do the job admirably. So this post was typed in good old Vim and saved. After that, cat blog.txt | pbcopy and I was able to easily paste it into wordpress.
Although iTerm has the ability to copy to the clipboard with selected text and Cmd+C, this inserts linebreaks in paragraphs in a nasty fashion.
Apparently, it’s reasonably simple to have this ability in KDE as well, or so this page suggests. Anyone know how to do this under Gnome?
[Update: Here's a python script to achieve this - works in Ubuntu and I guess, should work anywhere]
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