¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

Previously.

I decided to add a new copy script to pancake to standardize copying command output and files to the system clipboard in both macOS and Linux.

The idea was originally inspired by Evan Hahn:

copy and pasta are simple wrappers around system clipboard managers, like pbcopy on macOS and xclip on Linux. I use these all the time.

Evan’s version is concise and elegant.

My version is more verbose, for the sake of consistency with the rest of my scripts in pancake.

Usage #

# Copy from stdin
echo "BANANA42SPLIT88SUNDAE99CHERRY" | copy

# Copy a file
copy notes.txt

# Copy multiple files
copy *.md

Platform Support #

• macOS: Uses pbcopy (built-in)
• Linux: Auto-detects first available tool: — wl-copy (Wayland) — prioritized for modern desktops — xclip (X11) — xsel (X11)

Features #

• Silent on success (Unix philosophy)
• Supports stdin input
• Supports single or multiple files
• Multiple files are concatenated with newline separators
• Clear error messages for missing files or dependencies