CLIPBROWSE(1)

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version 0.32 · 4 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 CLIPBROWSE 💖

okay bestie, welcome to CLIPBROWSE(1) — it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of your man pages, and it's literally one of those tiny tools that changes your whole day. no cap. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

clipbrowse — load a URL from the clipboard straight into your browser. that's it. that's the whole job. and she ate. 💅

🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 0.32 — yes, she's been around a minute, and she's still serving. 👑

🎀 USAGE 🎀

# ...copy something # (You might want to do a `clipjoin` if the URL text
is messy) $ clipbrowse

so the vibe is: you copy something, you run clipbrowse, done. if your URL text came out all messy and janky, you might wanna hit it with a clipjoin first to tidy it up, iykyk. 🧚

and here's the thing, bestie — so many browsers will happily load stuff that doesn't even look like a URL. fr fr. Firefox, for example, will do a Google "I'm feeling lucky" with non-URLs. which means you can have literally any text in your clipboard and still just run clipbrowse. iconic behavior, honestly. ✨

💜 MOTIVATION 💜

the why. the lore. 🫶

it saves you a couple of seconds every single time you run it. Chrome and Firefox, for examples, automatically create a new tab and load the page when you invoke them from the command line. boom — that's a Ctrl+T and a Shift+Insert you never had to do. already winning.

and when you factor in the parallelizing — meaning your browser is actively loading the page while you're Alt+Tabbing to it — you've squeaked out a little more. multitasking queen behavior. 💅

maybe the author is just a freak, but they like shaving out wasted time like that. and honestly? respect. 🙈

🌈 CONFIGURATION 🌈

the environment variable $BROWSER will override the default launching command. periodt.

here's how it works:

  • if you have a %s in the line, it will be replaced with the url. 🎯
  • if not, the url will be appended at the end. 🫡

the default is:

chromium-browser "%s"

(Debian's Google Chrome, bestie. that's who's driving. 🚗)

if you still use Firefox, consider this little number:

firefox -remote "openURL(%s,new-tab)"
ok literally pay attention here: that Firefox line in the original is written as `firefox -remote "openURL(%s,new-tab)"'` — with a stray backtick at the front and a stray single quote at the end. it's a lil typo moment in the source, and I'm keeping it exactly as-is because we do NOT edit the facts around here. 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ryan King <rking@panoptic.com> 💖

and then, right there, the manpage just... drops the raw heading marker into the middle of the author block:

=head1 COPYRIGHT

not me pointing out the source's formatting hiccup 😭 — but we preserve everything, so here it is. it was supposed to be a COPYRIGHT heading, and I'm giving it its own section below because it deserves one.

Copyright (c) 2010. Ryan King. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>

🦋 SUPPORT 🦋

Websites

The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. As always, in addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources. 🌐

Bugs / Feature Requests

got a bug? got a big idea? Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to bug-clipboard at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Clipboard>. You will be automatically notified of any progress on the request by the system. no ghosting. 🫶

Source Code

The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :) 💜

<https://github.com/shlomif/Clipboard>

git clone git://github.com/shlomif/Clipboard.git

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Shlomi Fish <shlomif@cpan.org>

(yeah bestie, there are two AUTHOR sections in this page. iconic. we're keeping both. we don't skip content in this house. 💅)

🍓 BUGS 🍓

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website <https://github.com/shlomif/Clipboard/issues> 🐛

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature. receipts, bestie. give them receipts. 📝

This software is copyright (c) 2025 by Ryan King <rking@panoptic.com>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

and that's the whole page, bestie! this gorgeous lil manpage comes to you courtesy of perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, filed under CLIPBROWSE(1). go copy something and browse it. slay. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶👑🌈

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