clipboard-copy

To copy a file to the macOS clipboard, you pass the local file path to the script. The tool reads the file contents and uses pbcopy to make the text immediately available for pasting into other tools or documents.

Yes, you can pipe generated text directly to the script's stdin to copy it to the macOS clipboard. This enables immediate clipboard-ready output for fast text transfer between terminal commands and other applications.

Yes, the macOS clipboard copy tool works without a specified path by relying on a default fallback file target. If no target is provided, it automatically attempts to read from the default file to populate the clipboard.

Yes, you need pbcopy installed because the tool validates its availability before attempting to copy text. The script relies on this native macOS utility to transfer file contents or stdin input to the system clipboard.

If the file path is invalid, the script validates the target and returns specific error details instead of copying to the clipboard. This precise error reporting helps troubleshoot why the local file contents failed to load.