Cut, copy, and paste absolutely anything anywhere you want, all from the comfort of your terminal! This is the missing clipboard system for the command line.

• Zero-bloat: Clipboard rings in at mere kilobytes on most platforms.
• Zero-config: Clipboard infers everything out of the box.
• Zero-effort: Clipboard is carefully designed to be friendly to newbies and power users alike.
• Zero-dependency: Clipboard works on any up-to-date Windows, Linux, Android, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, or OpenIndiana system, or anything that supports C++20, all with ZERO dependencies. Yes, really!
• Zero-legacy: Clipboard carries zero (0) legacy baggage from the software of yore.
• Universal: Clipboard supports English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Turkish locales.
• A time-saver: Clipboard frees you from ugly, temporary directories and memorizing file locations!

In all commands, you can substitute cb for clipboard. Add a number to the end of the action to choose which clipboard you want to use (the default is 0).

clipboard copy (file) [files]

Examples:

cb copy foo.txt launchcodes.doc
clipboard copy1 MyDirectory
cb copy800 bar.conf AnotherDirectory baz.txt

clipboard cut (file) [files]

Examples:

cb cut bar.txt baz.docx
clipboard cut5 MyDirectory
cb cut69 bar.conf AnotherDirectory baz.txt

clipboard paste

(something) | clipboard [copy]

clipboard [paste] | (something)

or

clipboard [paste] > (some file)

clipboard show

clipboard clear

git clone https://github.com/slackadays/Clipboard
cmake Clipboard
cmake --build .

Platforms where you have sudo to install software (Linux, macOS, *BSD, OI):

sudo cmake --install .

OpenBSD:

doas cmake --install .

Windows:

cmake --install .

Platforms where you have sudo to uninstall software (Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OI):

sudo xargs rm < install_manifest.txt

OpenBSD:

doas xargs rm < install_manifest.txt

Windows:

This is currently WIP

You can also install Clipboard by downloading the latest build from GitHub Actions.

Arch-Linux users can install the clipboard, clipboard-bin, or clipboard-git AUR package.

Set this environment variable to make Clipboard overwrite existing items without a user prompt when pasting. This variable is intended for Continuous Integration scripts where a live human is not present to make decisions.

Set this environment variable to make Clipboard always show color regardless of what you set NO_COLOR to.

Set this environment variable to the directory that Clipboard will use to hold the items you cut or copy.

Set this environment variable to make Clipboard not show any colors.

Click here to go the Clipboard Wiki.

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