macOS command-line tools you might not know about

Re:macOS command-line tools you might not know about by escot on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @03:34PM (#36497589)

I use the following to edit contents of my clipboard:

    pbpaste | vipe | pbcopy

Where vipe is a util for inserting your editor (vim) in the middle of a pipe. From: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

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Re:macOS command-line tools you might not know about by rasen58 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @12:25AM (#36502278)

This is great utility I didn't know about! Thanks!

But do you know why it doesn't seem to work with the `pbfilter` function?

If I do directly `pbpaste | vipe | pbcopy`, then it opens vim and the clipboard text is pasted there. But if I run `pbfilter | vipe`, then vim opens with a blank buffer.

   function pbfilter() {
      if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
          pbpaste | "$@" | pbcopy
      else
          pbpaste | pbcopy
      fi
   }

It seems that the number of args is 0 for some reason

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Re:macOS command-line tools you might not know about by nneonneo on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @12:50AM (#36502450)

I think you have to use `pbfilter vipe`, as the argument to pbfilter is inserted into the middle of the pipe.

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