How to copy and paste to the clipboard from the terminal

Copy text to the clipboard by piping output to the platform’s clipboard command. Retrieve it with the corresponding paste command.

WSL

echo "hello" | clipcopy

clippaste

macOS

echo "hello" | pbcopy

pbpaste

Linux

echo "hello" | xclip -selection clipboard

xclip -selection clipboard -o

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References:

• https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/master/plugins/clipboard