nu_plugin_clipboard

A nushell plugin to copy text into clipboard or get text from it.

• clipboard copy: copy a text that's given as input
  • --{disable or enable}-daemon (-d): spawn a daemon that manages clipboard (if copy is not working try using this flag)
  • Since version 0.100.1> this method is now always enabled in linux environments, to disable this behavior set $env.config.plugins.clipboard.NO_DAEMON to true, to make it permanent add $env.config.plugins.clipboard.NO_DAEMON = true to config env
• clipboard paste: returns current text value of clipboard

Examples

• to copy a string (ONLY string for now)

~> echo "test value" | clipboard copy 

• to use a string that is in clipboard

~> clipboard paste | echo $in

• in order to copy tables please convert them to text format like JSON, YAML, ...
  • you are able to paste them as tables again using clipboard paste | from json

~> $env | to json | clipboard copy
~> clipboard paste | from json

~> ps | to json | clipboard copy
~> clipboard paste | from json

Installing

• using nupm Recommended!
  • this way you don't need to mess with features and it will install required features

git clone https://github.com/FMotalleb/nu_plugin_clipboard.git
nupm install --path nu_plugin_clipboard -f

• supported features:
  • use-wayland: will prioritize wayland api but will falls back to X11 protocol on error
  • enforce-daemon: Deprecation notice: this method is now always enabled in linux environments, to disable this behavior set $env.config.plugins.clipboard.NO_DAEMON to true, to make it permanent add $env.config.plugins.clipboard.NO_DAEMON = true to config env
• or compile manually

git clone https://github.com/FMotalleb/nu_plugin_clipboard.git
cd nu_plugin_clipboard
cargo build -r
plugin add target/release/nu_plugin_clipboard

• or using cargo

cargo install nu_plugin_clipboard
plugin add ~/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_clipboard