A simple cli copy / paste with System clipboard or customized fake clipboard (file).

Notice: Only text data worked, don't try to copy / paste binary data with this command.

Install

• npm

  npm install -g @guanghechen/tool-mini-copy

• yarn

  yarn global add @guanghechen/tool-mini-copy

Usage

• Help

  $ mcp --help
  Usage: mcp [options] [source content]
  
  Options:
    -V, --version                                     output the version number
    --log-level <level>                               specify logger's level.
    --log-name <name>                                 specify logger's name.
    --log-mode <'normal' | 'loose'>                   specify logger's name.
    --log-flight <option>                             specify logger' option. [[no-]<date|title|colorful|inline>] (default: [])
    --log-filepath <filepath>                         specify logger' output path.
    --log-encoding <encoding>                         specify output file encoding.
    -c, --config-path <configFilepath>                config filepaths (default: [])
    --parastic-config-path <parasticConfigFilepath>   parastic config filepath
    --parastic-config-entry <parasticConfigFilepath>  parastic config filepath
    -e, --encoding <encoding>                         Encoding of content from stdin or file.
    -i, --input <filepath>                            Copy the data from <filepath> to the system clipboard.
    -o, --output <filepath>                           Write the data from the system clipboard into <filepath>.
    -f, --force                                       Overwrite the <filepath> without confirmation.
    -s, --silence                                     don't print info-level log.
    --force                                           force paste the content of the system clipboard without copy even piped data.
    --fake-clipboard [local filepath]                 Specify a fake clipboard.
    --strip-ansi                                      Strip ansi escape codes.
    -h, --help                                        display help for command

• Basic

  # output the content of the system clipboard
  mcp
  
  # copy the content of data.in to the system clipboard
  mcp 'the data'
  mcp -i data.in
  mcp < data.in
  cat data.in | mcp
  echo 'Hello world' | mcp
  
  
  # write the content of system clipboard into data.out
  mcp >> data.out             # use linux pipeline, redirected the content of system clipboard to data.out
  mcp -o data.out             # (recommended way)
  mcp -o data.out -e UTF-8    # specified the content's encoding
  mcp -o data.out -f          # if the data.out is exist, overwrite it without confirmation.
  
  
  # show usage
  mcp --help

Related

• share clipboard in vim on wsl
• use fake clipboard(en, zh)