Simple Boujour-enabled command line copy/paste service
Sometimes I need to send someone a bit of code in the local LAN, or even to myself on the second Mac.
It would be nice to:
pbpaste | publish_local_lan
And on the other side:
receive_local_lan from_melo | pbcopy
There are a lot of tools like that the run under Mac OS X, but today I found one that can be run from the command-line: pastejour.
Installation is trivial:
sudo gem install dnssd
sudo gem install jbarnette-pastejour --source=http://gems.github.com
And after that, just use it. It will use your short name as the broadcast key. A sample session:
[email protected]:melo $ date | pastejour
Pasting melo...
# in another computer
[email protected]:melo $ pastejour melo
(melo from MrTray.local.:42424)
Wed Jun 4 10:40:54 WEST 2008
Simple and effective.