[9fans] pbcopy/pbpaste like functionality for snarf/paste buffers

[9fans] pbcopy/pbpaste like functionality for snarf/paste buffers

[David Leimbach]

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 :-)

Re: [9fans] pbcopy/pbpaste like functionality for snarf/paste buffers

[Tim Wiess]

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 :-)

Re: [9fans] pbcopy/pbpaste like functionality for snarf/paste buffers

[Steve Simon]

Perhaps I don't understand what you mean but

cat /dev/snarf | sed 's/hello/goodbye/' > /dev/snarf

works for me - is this enough for you?

-Steve