FISH_CLIPBOARD_COPY(1)

✨ NAME ✨

fish_clipboard_copy — copy text to the system's clipboard, bestie, that's literally it 💅

(this is a page from the fish-shell manual, section 1, and it's about to be your new fave 🫶)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fish_clipboard_copy

foo | fish_clipboard_copy

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so. the fish_clipboard_copy function copies text to the system clipboard. iconic behavior, no notes ✨

if stdin is not a terminal (see isatty), it will read all the input from there and copy it. if it is a terminal, it will use the current commandline instead — or the current selection, if there is one 🎀

it's bound to Ctrl+X by default. iykyk 😌

how does it actually do it? fish_clipboard_copy works by calling a system-specific backend. so if it doesn't appear to work for you, ngl, you may need to install yours 🙈

currently supported backends are:

• pbcopy
• wl-copy using wayland
• xsel and xclip for X11
• clip.exe on Windows
• the OSC 52 clipboard sequence, which your terminal might support 👑

lowkey important: that last one is the terminal thing — it only works if your terminal supports it, so no cap, don't come for me if yours doesn't 💀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• fish_clipboard_paste — get text from the system's clipboard, which does the exact inverse 🔁

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🌈 Copyright 🌈

fish-shell developers 👑

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and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this was the fish-shell manual, fish_clipboard_copy(1), version 4.9, dated Sep 08, 2026 — go forth and copy things ✨💖🦋