pbcopy is a well-known macOS tool that copies data to the clipboard.
It's very useful, but available only in your local machine, not in remote machines.
Fortunately, with OSC52 escape sequence, we can access the local machine clipboard via a remote machine.
I prepared a simple tool that is rpbcopy for remote machines.
It requires requires rust installed to build rpbcopy.
Installing rpbcopy is just copy the built artifact to $PATH.
[local] $ ssh user@remote.host
[remote] $ git clone https://github.com/expnn/rpbcopy.git
[remote] $ cd rpbcopy
[remote] $ cd cargo build --release
[remote] $ cp target/release/rpbcopy /path/to/bin/
Features required are not enabled by default
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First, make sure you use iTerm2 version 3.0.0 or later
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Check "Applications in terminal may access clipboard" in iTerm2 Preferences:
Just like the normal pbcopy:
[local] $ user@remote.host
[remote] $ date | rpbcopy
[remote] $ exit
[local] $ pbpaste
Mon Mar 21 22:15:29 CST 2022
Currently most terminals do not allow OSC 52 read access for security reasons. But we can just use command+V key to paste content from clipboard.
If you want to save the content of clipboard to a remote file, try this:
[remote] cat > out.txt
# press command+V to paste content of clipboard,
# and press control+D which indicats EOF
For OSC52
- http://doda.b.sourceforge.jp/2011/12/15/tmux-set-clipboard/
- http://qiita.com/kefir_/items/1f635fe66b778932e278
- http://qiita.com/kefir_/items/515ed5264fce40dec522
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/HEAD/hterm/etc/osc52.vim
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/HEAD/hterm/etc/osc52.el
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/HEAD/hterm/etc/osc52.sh
- https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#h2-Operating-System-Commands
- https://github.com/fcpg/vim-osc52
MIT