How do I copy to the OSX clipboard from a remote shell using iTerm2?

[Joe Casadonte]

Using iTerm2, I start an interactive SSH session to a remote Linux machine (where pbcopy is not available). On the remote Linux machine I would like to capture the output of some arbitrary command (e.g. ls *.foo), and have it magically appear in my OSX clipboard, so that when I hit ⌘+v it appears in whatever OSX application I've just pasted into. Is this possible? I've tried the escape codes mentioned on the iTerm2 doc page and can't make them work.

Thanks!

[George Nachman]

This command copies to the clipboard and also echos to the screen:

printf '\033]1337;CopyToClipboard=\007'

ls *.foo

printf '\033]1337;EndCopy\007'

This command copies to the clipboard without echoing:

printf '\033]52;;'

ls *.foo | base64

printf '\007'

You must have "Prefs > General > Applications in terminal may access clipboard" enabled, and "Prefs > Advanced > Disable potentially insecure escape sequences" turned off.

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Joe Casadonte <northboun...@gmail.com> wrote:

Using iTerm2, I start an interactive SSH session to a remote Linux machine (where pbcopy is not available). On the remote Linux machine I would like to capture the output of some arbitrary command (e.g. ls *.foo), and have it magically appear in my OSX clipboard, so that when I hit ⌘+v it appears in whatever OSX application I've just pasted into. Is this possible? I've tried the escape codes mentioned on the iTerm2 doc page and can't make them work.

Thanks!

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[Joe Casadonte]

I've pulled together a nice solution using launchd and netcat. If anyon'e interested, details are here:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/258168/27844