That's an interesting point. Maybe the tool could create a temporary file with the data piped to it.

But for now I think you should stick with:

pbpaste > /tmp/clipboard.txt && qr-filetransfer /tmp/clipboard.txt

Thanks for the idea, I'm tracking it in github.

hmm. i'd rather not. generally don't want the clipboard going to disk. thanks though.

Pipe to /dev/shm/filename

Reasonable

why not

   pbpaste | qr-filetransfer /dev/stdin

Or even just

    qr-filetransfer <(pbpaste)

This is not going to work unfortunately, the program expects the arguments to be paths.

<() expands to a path:

    $ echo <(true)
    /dev/fd/63

Ah, you are absolutely right