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OSXFAQ Daily Unix Tricks

Week 7 - When CLI Met GUI

by Adrian Mayo - Senior Editor for Mac OS X Unix

Tuesday - Paste from the Clipboard

Copy from the GUI clipboard into a Unix command.

Copy a page from TextEdit using command-c. Now paste it to the Unix command 'wc' ('wc' counts the number of words in its input).

pbpaste | wc -w
     348

Note that Mac GUI programs and Unix programs use a different end of line character, so the clipboard will appear to contain one long line.

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