pilot-clip(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, this is pilot-clip from the pilot-link crew — the manual lives under pilot-link(1), and the whole vibe is: get or set your Palm's Clipboard contents from STDOUT/STDIN. iconic little utility, no cap.

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✨ SECTION ✨

pilot-link: Userland conduits — that's the family it runs with 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

 pilot-clip [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-q|--quiet] [-?|--help]
[--usage] [-g|--get] [-s|--set]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So pilot-clip is literally the clipboard middleman 💅 It's used to get or set the Palm Clipboard contents from STDOUT/STDIN — that's the whole job, and it does it slayfully.

🚨 real talk though: you must provide one of -g or -s. Not optional. Not a suggestion. Pick a lane bestie.

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🍓 COMMANDS 🍓

You must provide one of -g or -s — those are the only two doors, pick one 👑

• -g, --get — Get the contents of the clipboard and pass to STDOUT. it's giving read-only main character energy ✨
• -s, --set — Set the clipboard to STDIN. feed it your data and it ate 💖

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

🌈 Conduit Options 🌈

• -p, --port <port> — Use device file <port> to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, pilot-clip will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. And if neither are found or supplied? it just prints the usage information 😭 no port, no vibes.
• -q, --quiet — Suppress the 'Hit HotSync button' message. for when you simply cannot with the small talk 🤫
• -v, --version — Display version of pilot-clip and exit without connecting. peek at the lore and dip 🫶

🧚 Help Options 🧚

• -h, --help — Display the help synopsis for pilot-clip and exit without connecting. (yes, the synopsis up top also shows -?|--help — that's how the manpage wrote it, iykyk 💀)
• --usage — Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting. short and sweet, periodt ⭐

💡 both of these bounce without connecting — zero HotSync required, we love a low-commitment queen.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk> — thank you for your service 🫡💜

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💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

We have an online bug tracker. Using this is the only way to ensure that your bugs are recorded and that we can track them until they are resolved or closed. Reporting bugs via email, while easy, is not very useful in terms of accountability. Please point your browser to http://bugs.pilot-link.org: http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your bugs and issues there.

fr fr use the tracker — email bugs get ghosted and nobody wants that 🙈

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🌟 COPYRIGHT 🌟

okay so this is the legal bit, and we keep it exactly as it comes — no edits, that's the rule 📜

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

pilot-link(7) — go read the big sibling page, it's the whole ecosystem bestie 🦋

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and that's the whole thing, mwah! 💖 this page is from version 0.13.0, copyright 1996-2007 FSF, and it's the pilot-clip(1) manual — go forth and clip responsibly, bestie 🎀✨