The clipboard transformer retrieves new values from the system clipboard and runs them through a series of user-defined transformations.
These transformations can be either inline shell commands like sed s/a/b/g or arbitrarily complex shell commands.
Print the current clipboard value as soon as it changes.
$ cbt
Transform as to As and bs to Bs.
$ cbt 'sed s/a/A/g' 'sed s/b/B/g'
Pretty-print JSON-content in the clipboard using jq.
$ cbt 'jq .'
Count how many words are separated by a , (works for the macOS version of sed).
$ cbt "sed 's/,/\'$'\n/g'" "wc -l"
If the clipboard content matches "foo", run it through your super-complex Python filter.
$ cbt 'grep foo' ./super_complex_filter.py
Shoot yourself in the foot with an infinite loop.
$ cbt 'xargs echo "haha "' pbcopy
The source install requires that you have the Rust compiler installed. Once it is present, run:
$ git clone [email protected]:Sh4pe/cbt.git
$ cd cbt
$ cargo install
This installs cbt to your $CARGO_HOME/bin directory.
To build directly from crates.io, run:
$ cargo install cbt