Command line interface to windows clipboard over KiTTY remote-control printing
This tool behaves like the cat command, it just tries to pad your content with the appropriate characters for your ssh client to send to a printer. KiTTY allows you to set your printer to the windows clip board so this in effect outputs whatever is fed to it to your windows clipboard.
To configure KiTTY for clipboard printing first pull up configuration or reconfiguration. Then under the Remote-controlled printing section select Windows clipboard as your printer see screenshot. Then install this tool on the remote system you want to copy to your clipboard from via go install github.com/jacobalberty/kclip@latest. Now use it as you would cat and instead of the files being output to your terminal they should output to your windows clipboard.
If you are using terminal with OSC 52 support this will attempt to automatically detect that and use it instead. Clients like nassh support this.
- Add a list of terminals that support OSC 52
- Improve the robustness of OSC 52 detection
- Add documentation for a workaround for PuTTY without the printer clipboard patch
- Add chunking to OSC 52 and detect when we need to use it
- Add a CLI option (probably use an environment variable) to force OSC 52 or printer mode