Blink: feature request: pbcopy, pbpaste

[goerz]

Once #494 is closed, I was wondering if it might be possible to add commands equivalent to pbcopy and pbpaste on the Mac. This feature request actually might more generally be for @holzschu's ios_system.

For example, just now I wanted to create a gist from a file I have an a remote host. My imagined workflow would be to just open a new tab in Blink, scp the file to local storage, put it on the clipboard with cat <filename> | pbcopy, switch to the browser, and paste it there. This is actually pretty much what I'd do on a Macbook.

I'd hope that implementing this would be easy (otherwise I wouldn't even ask). A more advanced version would have ssh commands connect directly to local pipes (ssh user@host cat <remotefile> | pbcopy), but that seems very non-trivial.

Also, with all the amazing work that's happening on Blink these days, you should seriously consider #448

[goerz]

In the meantime, I'm working around this with the Files app and Gladys, which allows to copy an entire file to clipboard.

[yury]

Yep, I requested that commands right a way.

Nicolas already implemented them.

Also, I thought thead, tail and sort, unique

[yury]

Hi @holzschu,

Do you plan to make 2.1 tag and build frameworks for download?

[holzschu]

Hi @yury,
since these are small changes, I've updated the 2.0 release with the new commands.

[yury]

Hmm, got it. But it is hard to track how to update commands.plist

[holzschu]

Good point. I'll be more careful in the future.
Note that you can always update commands.plist before ios_system is updated. If a command is defined in commandDictionary.plist but the dynamic library is not available, ios_system will just reply "command not found" (it will be a little more talkative if sideLoading == false).

[yury]

released!

[NightMachinary]

How can I run sth like ssh x some-command $(pbpaste)?

[holzschu]

Well, no, because $(command) is not implemented. You might be able to run pbpaste | ssh x some command.