Feature Request: Copy to Clipboard Option about bat HOT 2 CLOSED

I feel your pain with copying files, but I'm not sure if this would be within the scope of bat. The cat command is used for printing the contents of one or more files, and bat is follows suit as a syntax-highlighting printer for various file formats. Copying text directly from files feels like it would be better suited to a dedicated command, both for maintainability and compatability reasons.

If you don't mind using shell aliases, I might have something that works better for you:

alias pbcopy="xclip -selection clipboard -in"
alias pbpaste="xclip -selection clipboard -out"

MacOS uses pbcopy and pbpaste, which are simple commands that use standard input and standard output to copy/paste from the clipboard. The above aliases work similarly, and it makes copying as painless as:

pbcopy < some_file.txt
head -n20 some_file.txt | pbcopy
pbpaste | bat -l txt

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I know the issue is closed, but I'm dropping a comment to reference #296 since it's related.

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