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Don't add newline to clip board contents and don't print anything when we set the contents.
Note that the case of 'echo "hello" | clipboard' will now not include a trailing newline.
This is still a bit better (imo) compared to before.

Yes, in my opinion, too.

On the other hand, I have detected a bug in the "clipboard.sh" of the 6th of August:

If I execute:
echo a > /tmp/place
cat /tmp/place | clipboard
clipboard
it returns
a
and that's ok.

However, if I execute:
echo b > /tmp/place
clipboard < /tmp/place
clipboard
it returns
b
b
and that's an extra "b".

If you execute
echo "hello" | clipboard.sh
you see an extra empty line, written in your screen; that is to say:
$ echo "hello" | clipboard.sh

but you should only see
$ echo "hello" | clipboard.sh
without that extra empty line. For example, if you execute
echo "hello" | awk
you see that no extra empty line appears (because awk has caught all that it was feeded).

Also, if you execute
echo "hello" | clipboard.sh
and you "edit/paste" in a text editor, you get there:
hello

with that empty line at the end; this is all right. But if you execute
echo -n "hello" | clipboard.sh
and you "edit/paste" in a text editor, you get there:
hello

with that empty line at the end. That empty line should not exist, because you have used the "-n" argument (*).

(*) Like in
echo -n "hello" >> /tmp/file
echo -n "hello" >> /tmp/file
echo -n "hello" >> /tmp/file
echo -n "hello" >> /tmp/file
cat /tmp/file
hellohellohellohello

Thanks!

try the little image I attached: cat x.png |clipboard then clipboard > xx.png and then check, it gets truncated.