pbgopy

README

pbgopy

pbgopy acts like pbcopy/pbpaste but for multiple devices. It lets you share data across devices like you copy and paste.

Installation

Binary releases are available through here.

MacOS

brew install nakabonne/pbgopy/pbgopy

RHEL/CentOS

rpm -ivh https://github.com/nakabonne/pbgopy/releases/download/v0.1.0/pbgopy_0.1.0_linux_amd64.rpm

Debian/Ubuntu

wget https://github.com/nakabonne/pbgopy/releases/download/v0.1.0/pbgopy_0.1.0_linux_amd64.deb
apt install ./pbgopy_0.1.0_linux_amd64.deb

Go

go get github.com/nakabonne/pbgopy

Docker

docker run --rm nakabonne/pbgopy pbgopy help

Usage

First up, you start the pbgopy server which works as a shared clipboard for devices. It listens on port 9090 by default. You must allow access to this port for each device you want to share data with.

pbgopy serve

Put the address of the host where the pbgopy serve process is running into PBGOPY_SERVER environment variable.

export PBGOPY_SERVER=http://host.xz:9090
pbgopy copy <foo.png

Then paste it on another device:

export PBGOPY_SERVER=http://host.xz:9090
pbgopy paste >foo.png

TTL

You can set TTL for the cache. Give 0s for disabling it. Default is 24h.

pbgopy serve --ttl 10m

End-to-end encryption

pbgopy comes with an ability to encrypt/decrypt with a common key, hence allows you to perform end-to-end encryption without working with external tools.

pbgopy copy -k 32-byte-or-less-string <secret.txt

Then decrypt with the same key:

pbgopy paste -k 32-byte-or-less-string

Inspired By

• nwtgck/piping-server
• bradwood/glsnip