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I have a long string of text saved in a file that I want to easily copy to clipboard using Os X 10.11 terminal

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  • Create an Automator task for a Shell Script that runs pbcopy < name-of-template-file. Then map that to a key. Commented Feb 18, 2016 at 17:34

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pbcopy < myfile.txt

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cat myfile.txt | pbcopy

See man pbcopy and man pbpaste.

(This is specific to Mac OS X; for Linux there are other similar commands.)

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