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One of the most useful utilities I always use on my Windows system is pbpaste.

As I wrote in the last post, I use the llm package to interact with my language models, both locally and remotely.

Pasting a big chunk of content to them in the CLI always needs the help of pbpaste. This is natively available in Mac OS.

For Windows systems, I created a tiny utility using the standard Python library, which mimics the same.

Happy to report that I found some time last week and pushed it to PyPI. If you want to use it on your Windows system, run:

pip install pbpaste-win

Open the command line and you should have

pbpaste in the command line.

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Mac OS offers pbcopy for copying output to the clipboard. Windows has a similar utility called clip.

For example:

systeminfo | clip

This command copies system information into the clipboard, and it can be pasted into any application in Windows using Ctrl+V.

Here's a simple command line i always improves any text copied to the clipboard:

pbpaste | llm -s "improve this text" | clip

The clipboard now has the improved version of the text which can be pasted anywhere with control+c