Re: Access the Clipboard?

Take a look at 'man pbpaste' at the command line.

pbpaste and pbcopy both use standard in and standard out so JD is right 
for pbpaste but  to copy something it needs to come from standard in:

Here is I am in a loop through multi lines from the copied from the 
clipboard and being feed back one line at a time to the clipboard:

        system "printf \"$_\" | pbcopy";


Larry Furnival
Manager Instructional Media Lab
Academic Computing Services/Computing Information Services
Teachers College, Columbia University
On Apr 14, 2005, at 8:04 AM, John Delacour wrote:

> At 5:20 pm +1000 14/4/05, John Horner wrote:
>
> > More idle curiosity than a desperate need to know, but is it possible 
> > to access the OS X clipboard with perl, and if so, how?
>
> Provided you need to get only us-ascii stuff, then
>
> print `pbpaste`;
>
> Otherwise
>
> print `osascript -e 'the clipboard as unicode text'`;
>
> or use Mac::Carbon
>
> JD