From: Tim Wiess <tim@nop.cx>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pbcopy/pbpaste like functionality for snarf/paste buffers
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 16:25:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19e9a97cd5f5907eb12ccc8eb2fc2102@akira.nop.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60607051613x1d979ec8t79fe0a4fff179441@mail.gmail.com>
cat /dev/snarf
> One of my favorite things about Mac OS X is that the clipboard buffer
> can be accessed in two ways from the command line.
>
> For example I use an application for taking meeting notes that just
> lets me plot out an outline then export it in an XML format. I throw
> it through a sed/awk script (because who the hell wants to mess with
> XSLT unless they have to?) which dumps out a simplified wiki syntax
> version for posting meeting minutes to an internal page.
>
> I can just do "notes-to-wiki.sh somefile.xml | pbcopy"
>
> Likewise I've been known to grab stuff off of a page and then pass it
> through some filters.
>
> Copy stuff to the clipboard buffer then do.
>
> "pbpaste | filter-scripts"
>
> Etc.
>
> Is there equivalent technology for Plan 9/Rio? How hard would this be to add.
>
> Is it already somewhere in my Rio fileystem. Don't have access to my
> plan 9 box at the moment.
>
> I hope it's not terribly simple :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-05 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-05 23:13 David Leimbach
2006-07-05 23:25 ` Tim Wiess [this message]
2006-07-05 23:26 ` Steve Simon
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