My life as a developer is a mess: at work I have a laptop with Windows 7 and Cygwin installed; I also have a Vagrant box, running Ubuntu, that I use to do the most of my development work. At home I have a Macbook Air, with Mac OS Sierra.
You can easily imagine how quickly I got tired of having to remember which of the various pbaste, getclip et al. command I should have run depending on which terminal window I had opened.
Wouldn't it be nice if I could read from the OS clipboard, or write to it, using a single command line tool? And wouldn't it awesome if the same tool worked on various operating systems? (at least the ones I use on a daily basis)
enters cb..
> echo "cb is awesome!" | cowsay | cb
Read from the OS clipboard
> cb
________________
< cb is awesome! >
----------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
It works remotely too!
> cb --listen &
> ssh -R 5556:localhost:5556 user@remote
remote> cb
________________
< cb is awesome! >
----------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||