PBCOPY(1)PBCOPY(1)NAME
pbcopy, pbpaste - provide copying and pasting from command line
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/pbcopy
/usr/bin/pbpaste [ -Prefer {ascii | rtf | ps} ]
DESCRIPTION
pbcopy takes the standard input and places it in the OPENSTEP
pasteboard. The input is placed in the pasteboard as ASCII data unless
it begins with the Adobe Systems Encapsulated PostScript file header or
the Microsoft Rich Text Format file header, in which case it is placed
in the pasteboard as one of those data types.
pbpaste removes the data from the pasteboard and writes it to the
standard output. It normally looks first for ASCII data in the
pasteboard and writes that to the standard output; if no ASCII data is
in the pasteboard it looks for Encapsulated PostScript; if no EPS if
present it looks for Rich Text. If none of those types is present in
the pasteboard, paste produces no output.
OPTIONS-Prefer {ascii | rtf | ps}
tells pbpaste what type of data to look for in the pasteboard
first. As stated above, pbpaste normally looks first for ASCII
data; however, by specifying -Prefer ps you can tell pbpaste to
look first for Encapsulated PostScript. If you specify -Prefer
rtf, pbpaste looks first for Rich Text format. In any case,
pbpaste looks for the other formats if the preferred one is not
found.
BUGS
There is no way to tell pbpaste to get only a specified data type.
NeXT Computer, Inc. June 9, 1989 PBCOPY(1)