OS X clipboard access from the shell
Chris Siebenmann motivated me to finally do something about the situation of my web site passwords. So I needed some nice password generation process. I looked at 1password but didn’t find it terribly attractive. Instead I’m using the OSX keychain. For generating passwords I use the excellent apg. And since today this shell function: clippass() { apg -M SNCL -m 15 -n 1 | pbcopy pbpaste } This creates a long and safe password, pastes it to the clipboard using pbcopy and then shows it on the command line by pasting it again from the clipboard using pbpaste. ...