From 0ddf972d992d627c938601ffadc98bfce2819fe1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miguel Morales <mimoralea@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 15:50:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add aliases to copy to and paste from clipboard on the
 terminal for linux environments; analogous to pbpaste and pbcopy on Mac

---
 aliases/available/clipboard.aliases.bash | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 aliases/available/clipboard.aliases.bash

diff --git a/aliases/available/clipboard.aliases.bash b/aliases/available/clipboard.aliases.bash
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a9d8c151
--- /dev/null
+++ b/aliases/available/clipboard.aliases.bash
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+cite 'about-alias'
+about-alias 'pbcopy and pbpaste shortcuts to linux'
+
+case $OSTYPE in
+  linux*)
+    XCLIP=$(command -v xclip)
+    [[ $XCLIP ]] && alias pbcopy="$XCLIP -selection clipboard" && alias pbpaste="$XCLIP -selection clipboard -o"
+    ;;   
+  darwin*)
+    ;;   
+esac
+
+# to use it just install xclip on your distribution and it would work like:
+# $ echo "hello" | pbcopy
+# $ pbpaste
+# hello
+
+# very useful for things like:
+# cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcopy
+# have fun!