clipboard-pipe

Pipe command output to clipboard or paste clipboard content as stdin - seamless terminal-to-GUI bridge

Features

• Read from stdin and write to system clipboard (copy mode)
• Read from clipboard and write to stdout (paste mode)
• Auto-detect mode: if stdin is available, copy; otherwise paste
• Cross-platform support for Linux (X11/Wayland), macOS, and Windows
• Preserve newlines and special characters in clipboard content
• Silent operation by default with optional verbose flag
• Exit codes: 0 for success, 1 for clipboard access errors
• Handle empty clipboard gracefully
• Support piping in shell command chains seamlessly
• Minimal binary size with no external runtime dependencies

How to Use

Use this project when you need to:

• Quickly solve problems related to clipboard-pipe
• Integrate go functionality into your workflow
• Learn how go handles common patterns

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/KurtWeston/clipboard-pipe.git
cd clipboard-pipe

# Install dependencies
go build

Usage

./main

Built With

• go

Dependencies

• github.com/atotto/clipboard

Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.