Clipboard
A cross-platform command-line clipboard tool for copying, pasting and keeping clipboard history in the terminal.
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About Clipboard
Clipboard brings copy and paste to the terminal. You can copy files and text from the command line, paste them elsewhere, and keep a history of past clipboard contents to pull from later.
It is a C++ project built with CMake and runs across several operating systems. It has a large following on GitHub. It suits people who spend much of their day in a shell and want clipboard handling without switching to a graphical tool.
Strengths
- Copy and paste files and text from the command line
- Keeps a clipboard history
- Works across multiple operating systems
Limitations
- Terminal only, no graphical interface
- Commands take some learning
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to download from GitHub.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- Slackadays
- Platforms
- Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Terminal users who want copy, paste and history from the shell
- Categories
- Clipboard managers, CLI tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Clipboard
Compare allSoftware that can replace Clipboard for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
clipcat
A clipboard manager for Linux written in Rust, with a daemon, command-line control and menu front ends.
clipcat moves to a Linux-only Rust daemon with CLI and menu front ends that are easy to script, but it requires configuration and has no ready-made window.
cliphist
A command-line clipboard history manager for Wayland that works with dmenu, rofi, wofi and similar pickers.
cliphist is a Wayland-only command-line history that feeds dmenu-style pickers and supports images, rather than a cross-platform copy and paste tool.
clipse
A configurable clipboard manager for Unix systems that shows your clipboard history in a terminal interface.
clipse shows clipboard history in a configurable terminal interface for Unix systems, with no Windows or macOS app.
Ringboard
A fast, memory-efficient and composable clipboard history manager for Linux on X11 and Wayland.
Ringboard is Linux only but supports X11 and Wayland with CLI, terminal and graphical front ends, and is designed for low memory use.
GPaste
A clipboard management system for GNOME with a background daemon, GTK 4 interface and command line.
GPaste offers command-line access plus a GTK 4 window and GNOME Shell extension sharing one history, but it is built for GNOME on Linux.
CopyQ
A clipboard manager that keeps everything you copied in searchable tabs, with scripting on top.
CopyQ adds a graphical interface with tabs on Windows, macOS and Linux while still offering a command line and scripting API.
Clipboard as an alternative
Listings that name Clipboard as an alternative.
Greenclip
A small clipboard history manager for Linux that is designed to be used through rofi.
Clipboard handles copy, paste and history from the terminal on multiple operating systems, without rofi integration.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
clipmenu
A simple X11 clipboard history manager that uses dmenu, rofi or similar for selection.