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Created May 28, 2013 03:04
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This, more than anything, has improved my productivity an embarassing amount (w/ the scala repl)
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clipboard.scala
import java.io.{PrintWriter, OutputStreamWriter, BufferedOutputStream}
// copy given string to the mac clipboard by launching pbcopy in a subprocess
object Clipboard {
def pbcopy(string: String) {
val pb = new ProcessBuilder("/usr/bin/pbcopy")
val p = pb.start()
val stdin = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new BufferedOutputStream(p.getOutputStream)))
stdin.print(string)
stdin.close()
val exitStatus = p.waitFor()
if (exitStatus != 0)
throw new RuntimeException("pbcopy process exited with status" + exitStatus)
}
}
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Nice! Here's a bit more concise version of that, too:

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream
import scala.sys.process._

object Clipboard {
  def pbcopy(s: String) {
    "/usr/bin/pbcopy" #< new ByteArrayInputStream(s.getBytes("UTF-8")) !
  }
}

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slyphon commented May 28, 2013

fuckin' show-off...

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