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clipboard support: code-server --stdin-to-clipboard #6807

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This PR adds support for pasting to clipboard from STDIN. This is especially useful from the integrated terminal.

Use like this:

# directly from the integrated terminal
echo -n "HELLO CODE-SERVER!" | code-server --stdin-to-clipboard

# as an alias
alias xclip="code-server --stdin-to-clipboard"
echo -n "HELLO FROM ALIAS!" | xclip

# or from an executable
sudo tee /usr/local/bin/xclip << EOF
#!/bin/sh
code-server --stdin-to-clipboard
EOF
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/xclip
echo -n "HELLO FROM executable!" | xclip

Fixes #6175

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Very cool. One of those features that feels kinda like magic. 🪄

@code-asher code-asher merged commit efc6edf into coder:main May 21, 2024
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Yeah, it kind of is ;)

From terminal to "remote cli", from there via a Unix socket to code-server. Then it uses the general clipboard service which passes it to the Browser clipboard API. This approves the request because the browser window is in focus. Finally, the data is sent to the local clipboard.

A lot of steps but works nicely. 👍

@smerschjohann smerschjohann deleted the clipboard-support branch May 21, 2024 19:11
yiliang114 pushed a commit to yiliang114/code-server that referenced this pull request Jan 23, 2025
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Support copying to clipboard from CLI (coder#6807)
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Use --stdin-to-clipboard or -c to pass stdin to clipboard
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