Mac command line gold!

Copy a file to the clipboard:

$ cat ~/.zshrc | pbcopy

1	$ cat ~/.zshrc \| pbcopy

The contents of my .zshrc are now on the clipboard and I can paste them into any other application (Mail.app, Word, whatever).

Paste the clipboard contents to the shell:

$ pbpaste > foo.txt

1	$ pbpaste > foo.txt

Anything that was on the clipboard is now in the file foo.txt.

git completion in zsh

OS X, SCM, Shells 3 Responses »

Nov 212008

Just figured out how to get git tab completion working in zsh on a Mac. Turns out that the completion scripts use a bunch of extra git commands such as git-ls-files. These commands need to be in your path for the completion to work. If you installed git using the OS X installer, you need to add this directory to your path:

/usr/local/git/libexec/git-core

1	/usr/local/git/libexec/git-core