bp

bp is a cross-platform clipboard tool written in Rust, based on cb. It can automatically detect whether to copy or paste, and is optimised to work in pipes. Its behaviour is based on the tee command.

Installation

bp is on crates.io, so you can install it by running:

bash cargo install bp

Usage

Copy

```bash

copy some text

echo "some text" | bp

copy the HTML from example.com

curl https://example.com | bp

copy the contents of file.txt

bp file.txt

you can also pipe in a file

bp

Paste

```bash

paste to standard output

bp

paste to a pipe

bp | jq | less

paste to out.txt

bp >out.txt ```

Chaining

```bash

remove formatting from copied text

bp | bp

prettify, copy and view example.json

cat example.json | jq | bp | less

edit your current clipboard

bp | vipe | bp

hex-encode contents of the clipboard

bp | xxd | bp ```

Strip Whitespace

```bash

copy some text with whitespace stripped

echo " some text " | bp -s

paste to standard output with whitespace stripped

bp -s some text% ```

Licence

bp is available under the GPL-3.0-or-later.