Mac provides the command line for copy and paste, useful for some tasks.
refer link:http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/05/manipulating-the-clipboard-from-the-command-line/
Copy
copy the content of the file
pbcopy < file.txt
now the content is in clipboard, ready to be pasted
you can use pipe to combine command such as
find
,grep
,awk
andcut
to filter and aggregate data.
for example:
docker images | grep "iis-" | pbcopy
echo "this is a demo" | pbcopy
Paste
pbpaste
redirect content to a file
pbpaste > file.txt
pbpaste | grep "xxx"