#!/bin/sh # # Usage: yank [FILE...] # # Copies the contents of the given files (or stdin, if no files are given) to # the terminal that runs this program. If this program is run inside tmux(1), # then it also copies the given contents into tmux's current clipboard buffer. # If this program is run inside X11, then it also copies to the X11 clipboard. # # This is achieved by writing an OSC 52 escape sequence to the said terminal. # The maximum length of an OSC 52 escape sequence is 100_000 bytes, of which # 7 bytes are occupied by a "\033]52;c;" header, 1 byte by a "\a" footer, and # 99_992 bytes by the base64-encoded result of 74_994 bytes of copyable text. # # In other words, this program can only copy up to 74_994 bytes of its input. # However, in such cases, this program tries to bypass the input length limit # by copying directly to the X11 clipboard if a $DISPLAY server is available; # otherwise, it emits a warning (on stderr) about the number of bytes dropped. # # NOTE: You might also need to allow this script to bypass tmux (through the # "Ptmux;" escape sequence) by enabling allow-passthrough in your tmux.conf: # # set-window-option -g allow-passthrough on # # See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64 for the 4*ceil(n/3) length formula. # See http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/mailman/message/32221257 for copy limits. # See http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tmux-code/ci/a0295b4c2f6 for DCS in tmux. # # Written in 2014 by Suraj N. Kurapati # Also documented at https://sunaku.github.io/tmux-yank-osc52.html input=$( cat "$@" ) input() { printf %s "$input" ;} known() { command -v "$1" >/dev/null ;} maybe() { known "$1" && input | "$@" ;} alive() { known "$1" && "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1 ;} # copy via OSC 52 printf_escape() { esc=$1 test -n "$TMUX" -o -z "${TERM##screen*}" && esc="\033Ptmux;\033$esc\033\\" printf "$esc" } len=$( input | wc -c ) max=74994 test $len -gt $max && echo "$0: input is $(( len - max )) bytes too long" >&2 printf_escape "\033]52;c;$( input | head -c $max | base64 | tr -d '\r\n' )\a" # copy to tmux test -n "$TMUX" && maybe tmux load-buffer - # copy via X11 test -n "$DISPLAY" && alive xhost && { maybe xsel -i -b || maybe xclip -sel c } exit 0