Attempting to paste an empty pb happens so rarely it feels like a machine freeze.

#macOS #pbpaste #cmdv #pasteboard

I regularily use #pbcopy and #pbpaste shell commands on #MacOS. They are great to quickly process text. E.g. this formats JSON in clipboard and puts it back to clipboard:

$ pbpaste | jq | pbcopy

or this find the number of unique lines containing the word foo in file.txt:

$ grep foo file.txt | sort | uniq -c | pbcopy

PS: you can use `xmllint --format -` to format XML rather than #jq for JSON