Nearly every operating system has some notion of a short-term storage area which can be accessed by any program. Usually this is called the clipboard, but sometimes people refer to it as the paste buffer.
cmd2 integrates with the operating system clipboard using the pyperclip module. Command output can be sent to the clipboard by ending the command with a greater than symbol:
mycommand args >Think of it as though you are redirecting output to an unnamed, ephemeral place, you know, like the clipboard. You can also append output to the current contents of the clipboard by ending the command with two greater than symbols:
mycommand arg1 arg2 >>If you would like your cmd2 based application to be able to use the clipboard in additional or alternative ways, you can use the following methods (which work uniformly on Windows, macOS, and Linux).
cmd2.clipboard