Same but less instead of cat so my fingers stay in the keyboard. Vet, vite, etc ...

hsbauauvhabzb · 2025-07-24T16:54:41 1753376081

Have you tried aliases?

adolph · 2025-07-24T20:29:37 1753388977

For pbpaste/pbcopy and xclip? I've considered it and haven't decided how to do it yet given differences in how they work. Do you have one?

https://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip

https://ss64.com/mac/pbcopy.html

https://man.openbsd.org/xclipboard.1

procaryote · 2025-07-24T23:05:12 1753398312

I do

    if ! which pbcopy &> /dev/null; then
        alias pbcopy="xclip -selection clipboard"
        alias pbpaste="xclip -o -selection clipboard"
    fi

The `if` bit is so it only adds the alias if there isn't a `pbcopy`, so I can use the same dotfile on mac and linux

adolph · 2025-07-25T21:22:33 1753478553

Thank you!

hsbauauvhabzb · 2025-07-25T00:41:14 1753404074

I’m honestly not familiar with pbcopy, but I imagine you could make a relatively consistent wrapper in python if a simple alias does not work. Are you able to give some example shell code of what you’d like to be consistent?