clipboard
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jayjun
An Elixir package to copy and paste from system clipboard
Clipboard
Copy and paste from system clipboard.
Sick of IO.puts(json) then manually selecting your terminal? Try Clipboard.copy(json)!
Wraps ports to system-specific utilities responsible for clipboard access. It uses the default clipboard utilities on macOS, Linux and Windows but can be configured to call any executable.
Examples
Clipboard.copy("Hello, World!") # Copied to clipboard
"Hello, World!"
|> Clipboard.copy() # Insert into pipelines
|> business_as_usual()
# And paste too!
greeting = Clipboard.paste()
Options
Clipboard uses these utilities by default.
| OS | Utilities |
|---|---|
| macOS | pbcopy & pbpaste |
| Linux | xclip |
| Windows | clip |
However, you can instruct Clipboard to use another command by setting config.exs.
config :clipboard,
unix: [
copy: {"xsel", ["-i"]},
paste: {"xsel", ["-o"]}
]
Supported operating systems are :macos, :unix and :windows.
Installation
Add clipboard to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:
def deps do
[
{:clipboard, ">= 0.0.0", only: [:dev]}
]
end
Don’t forget to update your dependencies.
$ mix deps.get
Caveats
Pasting on Windows doesn’t work out of the box because clip only supports copying.
Links
License
Clipboard is released under MIT license.
jayjun