Terminal tool

clipline brings the clipboard into your shell: pipe text in, pull it out on another machine, upload files from a server. The same commands work on Linux and Windows.

Terminal

anna@laptop $ echo "ssh [email protected]" | clipline Saved entry to your current team. deploy@server $ clipline pull --latest --print ssh [email protected] deploy@server $ clipline push backup.tar.gz Uploaded backup.tar.gz as entry to your current team. deploy@server $

Pipe text in on one machine, pull it out on another – on Linux, Windows and servers.

Install

System	How
Linux desktop	Included in the Linux desktop package, see Linux desktop
Linux server	The `clipline` package from Downloads: `sudo apt install ./clipline_*_all.deb`. It needs no desktop.
Windows	Tick terminal tool in `clipline-setup.exe`, see Windows
macOS and others	The Python zip under Other systems on Downloads, needs Python 3

Connect

clipline --config

It asks for the server URL (https://clipline.roedlach.tirol) and an API token with read and create.

Send: push

echo "ssh [email protected]" | clipline   # piped text
clipline push "some text"                # text as argument
clipline push report.pdf photo.jpg       # files
clipline push --clipboard                # whatever is on your clipboard
clipline push --private secret.env       # only visible to you
echo "$TOKEN" | clipline push --burn     # deleted by the first copy (text only)
clipline push -t Ops notes.txt           # to the team "Ops"

Fetch: pull

clipline                       # choose an entry, copy it to the clipboard
clipline pull --latest         # the newest entry, no questions
clipline pull -l > note.txt    # into a file
clipline pull -l --print       # print instead of copying
clipline pull -o ~/Downloads   # where files are saved

Without --latest you get a list to choose from: type to filter, ↑ ↓ to move, Enter to pick, Esc to cancel. With fzf installed it uses that, with a preview.

Text goes to your clipboard; over SSH and on servers without a clipboard it is printed instead. Files are downloaded into the current folder.

A burn-after-reading entry is listed as 🔥 Burn after reading. Picking it (or --latest when it is the newest) fetches the text once and deletes it for everyone; if someone was faster, you get Already copied by someone else.

Teams

Command	What it does
`clipline --switch-team`	Choose your default team
`-t .`	Use the default team in `push` and `pull`
`-t NAME` or `-t ID`	Use another team
`clipline --user`	Show your account and teams

Without -t, push goes to your current team and pull shows entries from all your teams.

All options

Option	Works with	Meaning
`-t`, `--team`	push, pull	Team name or id, `.` for the default team
`-p`, `--private`	push	Only visible to you
`--to`	push	Send to one person of your teams: an email address, an id or a part of the name (`--to anna`). Not together with `-p` or `-t`
`-b`, `--burn`	push	Burn after reading: the first copy, by anyone, deletes it. Text only
`-c`, `--clipboard`	push	Send the clipboard
`-n`, `--name`	push	File name for an image or binary data from stdin
`-l`, `--latest`	pull	Take the newest entry
`--print`	pull	Write to the terminal instead of the clipboard
`-o`, `--output`	pull	Folder for downloaded files

clipline --help lists them as well.

Where settings are kept

Linux: ~/.config/clipline/config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\Clipline\config.json