copyq

Clipboard manager with advanced features. More information: https://copyq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command-line.html.

• Launch CopyQ to store clipboard history:

copyq

• Show current clipboard content:

copyq clipboard

• Insert raw text into the clipboard history:

copyq add -- text1 text2 text3

• Insert text containing escape sequences (‘\n’, ‘\t’) into the clipboard history:

copyq add firstline\nsecondline

• Print the content of the first 3 items in the clipboard history:

copyq read 0 1 2

• Copy a file’s contents into the clipboard:

copyq copy < path/to/file.txt

• Copy a JPEG image into the clipboard:

copyq copy image/jpeg < path/to/image.jpg