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Have you tried aliases?


For pbpaste/pbcopy and xclip? I've considered it and haven't decided how to do it yet given differences in how they work. Do you have one?

https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip

https://ss64.com/mac/pbcopy.html

https://man.openbsd.org/xclipboard.1


I do

    if ! which pbcopy &> /dev/null; then
        alias pbcopy="xclip -selection clipboard"
        alias pbpaste="xclip -o -selection clipboard"
    fi
The `if` bit is so it only adds the alias if there isn't a `pbcopy`, so I can use the same dotfile on mac and linux


Thank you!


I’m honestly not familiar with pbcopy, but I imagine you could make a relatively consistent wrapper in python if a simple alias does not work. Are you able to give some example shell code of what you’d like to be consistent?




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