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pbcopy and pbpaste: Mac command-line copy and paste tools

phcopy and pbpaste are super useful command-line tools for Copy and Paste (ctrl+c / ctrl+v).

# copy content from a text file
$ cat my-file.txt | pbcopy
# paste (output) from clipboard
$ pbpaste
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