Installing the command-line executable

Assuming you have Rust/Cargo installed, run this command in a terminal:

cargo install bp

It will make the bp command available in your PATH if you've allowed the PATH to be modified when installing Rust. cargo uninstall bp uninstalls.

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bp

bp ("better paste") is a cross-platform clipboard tool written in Rust, based on cb. It can automatically detect whether to copy or paste, and is optimised to work in pipes. Its behaviour is based on the tee command.

Installation

bp is on crates.io, so you can install it by running:

cargo install bp

Usage

Copy

# copy some text
echo "some text" | bp

# copy the HTML from `example.com`
curl https://example.com | bp

# copy the contents of `file.txt`
bp file.txt

# you can also pipe in a file
bp <file.txt

Paste

# paste to standard output
bp

# paste to a pipe
bp | jq | less

# paste to `out.txt`
bp >out.txt

Chaining

# remove formatting from copied text
bp | bp

# prettify, copy and view `example.json`
cat example.json | jq | bp | less

# edit your current clipboard
bp | vipe | bp

# hex-encode contents of the clipboard
bp | xxd | bp

Strip Whitespace

# copy some text with whitespace stripped
echo " some text " | bp -s

# paste to standard output with whitespace stripped
bp -s
some text%

Licence

bp is available under the GPL-3.0-or-later.