Is it possible to send the contents of a text file to the clipboard from the command line in OS X?

Question

I've found myself needing to do this a couple of times lately and wondered if there was a way to do this in the OS already. Failing that, I've got a pretty good idea of how to write a script to do it, I just need to know how to access the clipboard in os x.

Answer 1

Nevermind, figured it out.

 pbcopy < filename

  #copies contents of a text, rtf, or eps file to the clipboard


  pbpaste

  #pastes content of clipboard to stdout

Answer 2

Yep, that's the way to go. Of course, you can also pipe output into it, ie, echo "test" | pbcopy.