CLIPFILTER(1)

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version 0.32 · 4 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 CLIPFILTER 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to clipfilter — it's a lil Perl script that lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of your man pages, and honestly? it's giving clipboard glow-up. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

clipfilter — run various conversions for your clipboard data. that's it, that's the job. copy something, filter it, paste it back. iconic behavior. 🎀

🌸 VERSION 🌸

this is version 0.32. periodt.

🦋 USAGE 🦋

okay so here's the vibe. you copy some stuff, you run one of these, you paste:

# (copy some stuff)
$ clipfilter -html
# (paste, with html entities substituted in)

# or URI-escaping:
$ clipfilter -uri

# or pipe through an arbitrary program, like `tac`, the backwards cat:
$ clipfilter tac
# Note: currently, this just dumps everything to open2() and reads
# everything back. It could possibly create a deadlock, but I haven't
# found the case that causes this, yet.
heads up bestie: the note in that last block is literally straight from the source — piping to an arbitrary program currently just dumps everything to open2() and reads everything back, and it could possibly create a deadlock. the author hasn't found the case that causes it yet, but like... be aware. 😭

🌈 MOTIVATION 🌈

so the very frequent user pattern is: copy something, edit it in some rote way, then paste it back. and writing your own filter scripts will make it even more useful. that's the whole dream. that's the fantasy. ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

current weirdness when piping this to some programs, like wc and tail. the author will work on this. no cap. 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ryan King <rking@panoptic.com>

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. (yes bestie, the original really does tell you to just go search, and honestly? valid.)

🐛 Bugs / Feature Requests 🐛

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. love that for you. 🫶

🧚 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 a diff or prod the maintainer to pull from the repository :)

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

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

💅 AUTHOR 💅

(okay so yes, this is a second AUTHOR section — the page has two of them, and we're keeping both, because details are sacred 💖)

Shlomi Fish <shlomif@cpan.org>

😭 BUGS 😭

(and yes, a second BUGS section too. we do not skip. we do not summarise. periodt.)

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.

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 was CLIPFILTER(1), documented for perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and it ate. go filter some clipboard data. slay. 👑✨🦋

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