[GH-ISSUE #539] Does Clipy has CUI? #357

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opened 2026-03-03 01:11:56 +03:00 by kerem · 3 comments

kerem commented

2026-03-03 01:11:56 +03:00

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Originally created by @your-diary on GitHub (Oct 25, 2023).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy/issues/539

I want to access the contents of Clipy via CUI.

For example:

$ clipy 1 #accesses the latest history (i.e. the content of the native clipboard)
$ clipy 2 #accesses the second latest history

Originally created by @your-diary on GitHub (Oct 25, 2023). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy/issues/539 I want to access the contents of Clipy via CUI. For example: ```bash $ clipy 1 #accesses the latest history (i.e. the content of the native clipboard) $ clipy 2 #accesses the second latest history ```

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@jsomers commented on GitHub (May 3, 2024):

I'm also interested in this—or just in knowing where Clipy stores the history data.

@jsomers commented on GitHub (May 3, 2024): I'm also interested in this—or just in knowing where Clipy stores the history data.

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@your-diary commented on GitHub (Jun 14, 2025):

After 1.5 years, still looking for a way to do that...

@your-diary commented on GitHub (Jun 14, 2025): After 1.5 years, still looking for a way to do that...

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@your-diary commented on GitHub (Jun 15, 2025):

Each history entry can be found as a separate file: ~/Library/Application Support/Clipy/<uuid>.data

Here's a sample script to print the first line of each history entry (newest to oldest):

#!/usr/bin/env bash

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Clipy

for file in $(ls -1 -t); do
    plutil -convert xml1 -o - "${file}" | yq --input-format xml '.plist.dict.array.string[-1]' | head -n 1
done

One can easily create their own clipy CLI using this.

@your-diary commented on GitHub (Jun 15, 2025): Each history entry can be found as a separate file: `~/Library/Application Support/Clipy/<uuid>.data` Here's a sample script to print the first line of each history entry (newest to oldest): ```bash #!/usr/bin/env bash cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Clipy for file in $(ls -1 -t); do plutil -convert xml1 -o - "${file}" | yq --input-format xml '.plist.dict.array.string[-1]' | head -n 1 done ``` One can easily create their own `clipy` CLI using this.