purple-ssh 3.25.0

Free, open-source terminal SSH manager and SSH config editor in Rust for macOS and Linux that keeps ~/.ssh/config in sync with 16 cloud providers, monitors live SSH tunnels and manages Docker and Podman containers fleet-wide. Spin up a VM, it shows up. Destroy it, it dims. Plus scp, Vault SSH certs and an MCP server for AI agents. MIT licensed.
Documentation
use std::io::Write;
use std::process::{Command, Stdio};
use std::sync::OnceLock;

/// Cached clipboard command detection result.
static CLIPBOARD_CMD: OnceLock<Result<&'static str, String>> = OnceLock::new();

/// Try to find a working clipboard command by checking PATH (cached after first call).
fn clipboard_cmd() -> Result<&'static str, String> {
    CLIPBOARD_CMD
        .get_or_init(|| {
            let candidates = [
                ("pbcopy", &[][..]),                         // macOS
                ("wl-copy", &[][..]),                        // Wayland
                ("xclip", &["-selection", "clipboard"][..]), // X11
                ("xsel", &["--clipboard", "--input"][..]),   // X11 alt
            ];

            for (cmd, _) in &candidates {
                let found = Command::new("sh")
                    .args(["-c", &format!("command -v {} >/dev/null 2>&1", cmd)])
                    .stdout(Stdio::null())
                    .stderr(Stdio::null())
                    .status()
                    .is_ok_and(|s| s.success());
                if found {
                    return Ok(*cmd);
                }
            }

            Err(crate::messages::NO_CLIPBOARD_TOOL.to_string())
        })
        .clone()
}

/// Get the extra args needed for a clipboard command.
fn clipboard_args(cmd: &str) -> &'static [&'static str] {
    match cmd {
        "xclip" => &["-selection", "clipboard"],
        "xsel" => &["--clipboard", "--input"],
        _ => &[],
    }
}

/// Copy text to the system clipboard.
pub fn copy_to_clipboard(text: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
    let cmd = clipboard_cmd()?;
    let args = clipboard_args(cmd);

    let mut child = Command::new(cmd)
        .args(args)
        .stdin(Stdio::piped())
        .stdout(Stdio::null())
        .stderr(Stdio::null())
        .spawn()
        .map_err(|_| crate::messages::clipboard_run_failed(cmd))?;

    let write_result = (|| {
        let stdin = child
            .stdin
            .as_mut()
            .ok_or_else(|| crate::messages::clipboard_write_failed(cmd))?;
        stdin
            .write_all(text.as_bytes())
            .map_err(|_| crate::messages::clipboard_write_failed(cmd))
    })();

    // Drop stdin so the child process gets EOF before we wait
    child.stdin.take();

    // Reap the child process and check exit status
    let status = child
        .wait()
        .map_err(|_| crate::messages::clipboard_wait_failed(cmd))?;

    write_result?;

    if !status.success() {
        return Err(crate::messages::clipboard_exited_error(cmd));
    }

    Ok(())
}