yank

#!/bin/sh
#
# Usage: yank [FILE...]
#
# Copies the contents of the given files (or stdin if no files are given) to
# the terminal that runs this program.  If this program is run inside tmux(1),
# then it also copies the given contents into tmux's current clipboard buffer.
# If this program is run inside X11, then it also copies to the X11 clipboard.
#
# This is achieved by writing an OSC 52 escape sequence to the said terminal.
# The maximum length of an OSC 52 escape sequence is 100_000 bytes, of which
# 7 bytes are occupied by a "\033]52;c;" header, 1 byte by a "\a" footer, and
# 99_992 bytes by the base64-encoded result of 74_994 bytes of copyable text.
#
# In other words, this program can only copy up to 74_994 bytes of its input.
# However, in such cases, this program tries to bypass the input length limit
# by copying directly to the X11 clipboard if a $DISPLAY server is available;
# otherwise, it emits a warning (on stderr) about the number of bytes dropped.
#
# See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64 for the 4*ceil(n/3) length formula.
# See http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/mailman/message/32221257 for copy limits.
# See http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tmux-code/ci/a0295b4c2f6 for DCS in tmux.
#
# Written in 2014 by Suraj N. Kurapati and documented at http://goo.gl/NwYqfW

buf=$( cat "$@" )


# Create the OSC52 escape string.
len=$( printf %s "$buf" | wc -c ) max=74994
test $len -gt $max && echo "$0: input is $(( len - max )) bytes too long" >&2
esc="\033]52;c;$( printf %s "$buf" | head -c $max | base64 | tr -d '\r\n' )\a"
test -n "$TMUX" && esc="\033Ptmux;\033$esc\033\\"

# Output the string to waiting terminals
printf "$esc"

# Attempt to push to the raw SSH_TTY if that exists.
test -n "$SSH_TTY" && printf "$esc" > $SSH_TTY

if [ -n "$TMUX" ]; then
  #push the OSC52 esc string to the clients directly.
#  tmux_clients=$(tmux list-clients -F "#{client_tty}")
#  readarray -t tmux_clients <<<"$tmux_clients"
#  for c in ${tmux_clients[@]}; do
#    printf "$esc" > $c
#  done
#
  # And add it directly to the TMUX copy buffer.
  test -n "$TMUX" && tmux set-buffer "$buf"
fi

# copy to X11 if possible...
test -n "$DISPLAY" && command -v xsel > /dev/null && command -v xclip > /dev/null \
    && printf %s "$buf" | { xsel -ib || xclip -sel c ;} && exit

# copy to pbcopy on MacOS
command -v pbcopy > /dev/null && printf %s "$buf" | pbcopy

# Copy to remote pbcopy daemon, if attached
if $(nc -z localhost 5556); then
  printf %s "$buf" | nc localhost 5556

fi