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		huskyr on May 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OS X Command Line Utilities Awesome. I knew about `pbcopy`, but i never knew you could also pipe stuff into it. That saves a lot of time saving script outputs to temporary text files and copying!

Touche on May 15, 2014 [–]

alias copyssh="cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcopy"

mmcclimon on May 15, 2014 | [–]

Or without the extraneous cat: "pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub"

Touche on May 15, 2014 | | [–]

Ah yes, thanks, I always forget about <

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