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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 19:32:42 JST Aral Balkan

   You know you can use your mouse and keyboard between different Macs using Universal Control and copy/paste between them (which makes it really easy when manually migrating settings, etc., between machines), but did you know you can also copy/paste whole files using Terminal:

   On the first Mac:

   cat my-file.txt | pbcopy

   On the second Mac:

   pbpaste > my-file.txt

   Piping to pbcopy is something you’ll likely find useful in general.

   (You can also drag/drop files to Finder.)

   #macOS #tip #terminal

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     David Nelson (dmnelson@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 04:39:50 JST David Nelson

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     @aral That’s a great tip! I’ve been Mac user forever and didn’t realize you could use pbcopy/pbpaste in this way. ✅

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 04:39:50 JST Aral Balkan

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     • David Nelson

     @dmnelson Glad you found it useful :)