pbi

What

An image-aware version of pbcopy and pbpaste for macOS.

Pbcopy/paste gets/sets information on the clipboard from the terminal. They're pretty handy! They don't handle images though. So you can't right click, copy image, and then paste that contents in the terminal.

With pbi, you can.

While we're at it, pbcopy and pbpaste can be combined into one utility that detects read or write.

Installing

Clone the repo, cargo build, copy the binary to somewhere in your $PATH

Usage

Right click on an image, and then you can do:

pbi > nyan.jpg

or

pbi > nyan.png

Also you can do

cat nyan.png | pbi

or 

pbi < nyan.png

if you prefer

We live in the future: terminals with Kitty graphics protocol support and iTerm2 with Sixel support can also do plain

pbi

and it'll display the image directly in the terminal.

pbi copies stdin to the pasteboard when stdin is piped or redirected. When stdin is a terminal, it pastes the current pasteboard content.