tldr/pages/common/copyq.md

copyq

Clipboard manager with advanced features. More information: https://copyq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command-line.html.

• Launch CopyQ to store clipboard history:

copyq

• Show current clipboard content:

copyq clipboard

• Insert raw text into the clipboard history:

copyq add -- {{text1}} {{text2}} {{text3}}

• Insert text containing escape sequences ('\n', '\t') into the clipboard history:

copyq add {{firstline\nsecondline}}

• Print the content of the first 3 items in the clipboard history:

copyq read 0 1 2

• Copy a file's contents into the clipboard:

copyq copy < {{path/to/file.txt}}

• Copy a JPEG image into the clipboard:

copyq copy image/jpeg < {{path/to/image.jpg}}