yank

Read input from stdin and display a selection interface that allows a field to be selected and copied to the clipboard.

More information.

• Yank using the default delimiters (\f, \n, \r, \s, \t):

{sudo dmesg} | yank

• Yank an entire line:

{sudo dmesg} | yank -l

• Yank using a specific delimiter:

{echo hello=world} | yank -d {=}

• Only yank fields matching a specific pattern:

{ps ux} | yank -g "{[0-9]+}"

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