#Command line clear clipboard mac os install#
#Command line clear clipboard mac os code#

Makes the program unuseful for shell scripts, and very large (about a MB). Build script options -debug Turns on a large number of messages, turns on debugging symbols, and turns off the automatic stripping of the executable. The compile-options are passed to the compiler during the build phase. If you do specify a version, it will attempt to compile clipboard-VERSION.c as clipboard-VERSION. If you specify no version, it will attempt to compile clipboard.c as clipboard. The version, if specified, must have the decimal removed (for example, вЂњ20вЂќ = 2.0), and is used to identify the source file and output name. You can specify one option from the list below, or no option. You generally should not enable this directly instead, use the -debug option to the build script.

DEBUG Turns on lots of messages which tell you what clipboard is doing. When escalated allocation is present, this is the initial increment. DoesnвЂ™t apply to directвЂ“fromвЂ“file operations or stdout. When reading from stdin, clipboard will read N bytes at a time.

BUFSIZE= N Specify a buffer increment of N bytes.

#Command line clear clipboard mac os code#

You should specify this if you turn off argument support (with NOARGSUPPORT) the clipcat feature isnвЂ™t very useful otherwise (in fact, without argument support, the clipcat code never runs). NOCLIPCAT Turns off the feature by which, when copying multiple things, they will all be copied to the clipboard together at the end of processing (after any commandвЂ“line flags have been processed). All I/O must then be done through stdin and stdout (i.e. NOARGSUPPORT Turns off support for commandвЂ“line arguments. My own comparisons between FDs and streams has not revealed a significant difference in performance, but YMMV. USE_FD Turns on an experimental feature: fileвЂ“descriptor I/O. Thus, the increment will be 64 K for the first read, 64 K for the second read, 128 K, 256 K, etc. With this, clipboard starts by reading a fixed amount (64 K by default) and doubles that amount every time it increases the buffer size when reading from stdin. Escalated allocation is recommended if you intend to copy large amounts of data to the clipboard and you donвЂ™t want to copy from a file using the -c option.

NO_ESCALATE Turns off escalated allocation. If your compiler is gcc, append each of these to -D, for example вЂњ -DBUFSIZE=1048576 -DESCALATEвЂќ. This is a list of the preprocessor macros you can supply to the build process to influence the resulting program. If you wish the executable to be installed in someplace other than /usr/local/bin, you can pass the directory name after the build command.

There are preprocessor macros you can place after the word вЂњbuilditвЂќ to include or exclude certain features.

Build the executable by typing buildit.

Assuming this is named вЂњclipboard-20вЂќ, type cd clipboard-20.

Change your working directory so you are in the distribution directory.

The resulting file should have a name like вЂњclipboard-20.tarвЂќ (IвЂ™ll use вЂњ TARFILEвЂќ here) type tar xf TARFILE. The word вЂњ TARBALLвЂќ is used in place of the filename below where you see TARBALL, type the filename instead. This file should be named something like вЂњclipboard-20.tbzвЂќ or вЂњclipboard-20.tgzвЂќ.

First, obtain the clipboard source distribution, if you havenвЂ™t already.

#Command line clear clipboard mac os install#

Before you can use clipboard, you must build it from sources and optionally install it.