#!/bin/sh # # Usage: yank [FILE...] # # Copies the contents of the given files (or stdin if no files are given) to # the terminal that runs this program. If this program is run inside tmux(1), # then it also copies the given contents into tmux's current clipboard buffer. # If this program is run inside X11, then it also copies to the X11 clipboard. # # This is achieved by writing an OSC 52 escape sequence to the said terminal. # The maximum length of an OSC 52 escape sequence is 100_000 bytes, of which # 7 bytes are occupied by a "\033]52;c;" header, 1 byte by a "\a" footer, and # 99_992 bytes by the base64-encoded result of 74_994 bytes of copyable text. # # In other words, this program can only copy up to 74_994 bytes of its input. # However, in such cases, this program tries to bypass the input length limit # by copying directly to the X11 clipboard if a $DISPLAY server is available; # otherwise, it emits a warning (on stderr) about the number of bytes dropped. # # See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64 for the 4*ceil(n/3) length formula. # See http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/mailman/message/32221257 for copy limits. # See http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tmux-code/ci/a0295b4c2f6 for DCS in tmux. # # Written in 2014 by Suraj N. Kurapati and documented at http://goo.gl/NwYqfW buf=$( cat "$@" ) # Create the OSC52 escape string. len=$( printf %s "$buf" | wc -c ) max=74994 test $len -gt $max && echo "$0: input is $(( len - max )) bytes too long" >&2 esc="\033]52;c;$( printf %s "$buf" | head -c $max | base64 | tr -d '\r\n' )\a" test -n "$TMUX" && esc="\033Ptmux;\033$esc\033\\" # Output the string to waiting terminals printf "$esc" # Attempt to push to the raw SSH_TTY if that exists. test -n "$SSH_TTY" && printf "$esc" > $SSH_TTY if [ -n "$TMUX" ]; then #push the OSC52 esc string to the clients directly. # tmux_clients=$(tmux list-clients -F "#{client_tty}") # readarray -t tmux_clients <<<"$tmux_clients" # for c in ${tmux_clients[@]}; do # printf "$esc" > $c # done # # And add it directly to the TMUX copy buffer. test -n "$TMUX" && tmux set-buffer "$buf" fi # copy to X11 if possible... test -n "$DISPLAY" && command -v xsel > /dev/null && command -v xclip > /dev/null \ && printf %s "$buf" | { xsel -ib || xclip -sel c ;} && exit # copy to pbcopy on MacOS command -v pbcopy > /dev/null && printf %s "$buf" | pbcopy # Copy to remote pbcopy daemon, if attached if $(nc -z localhost 5556); then printf %s "$buf" | nc localhost 5556 fi