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Date: Wed,  5 Jul 2006 16:13:20 -0700
From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] pbcopy/pbpaste like functionality for snarf/paste buffers
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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 :-)