xclip wasn't working for me on macOS, and it also requires a bunch of heavy dependencies, like XQuartz. This patch fixes it to use the OS-native pbcopy:

--- tmpmail-ori
+++ tmpmail
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 # The default command that will be used to copy the email address to
 # the user's clipboard when running 'tmpmail --copy'
-copy_to_clipboard_cmd="xclip -selection c"
+copy_to_clipboard_cmd="pbcopy"
 
 # If the value is set to 'true' tmpmail will convert the HTML email
 # to raw text and send that to stdout

pbcopy works on Linux?

No, this is for macOS only.

For portability, something like this can work:

if command -v pbcopy >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  copy_to_clipboard_cmd="pbcopy"
else
  copy_to_clipboard_cmd="xclip -selection c"
fi

or:

case "$(uname)" in
  Darwin*) copy_to_clipboard_cmd="pbcopy";;
  *)       copy_to_clipboard_cmd="xclip -selection c";;
esac

xclip wasn't working for me on macOS, and it also requires a bunch of heavy dependencies, like XQuartz. This patch fixes it to use the OS-native pbcopy:

--- tmpmail-ori
+++ tmpmail
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 # The default command that will be used to copy the email address to
 # the user's clipboard when running 'tmpmail --copy'
-copy_to_clipboard_cmd="xclip -selection c"
+copy_to_clipboard_cmd="pbcopy"
 
 # If the value is set to 'true' tmpmail will convert the HTML email
 # to raw text and send that to stdout

can you submit that to the upstream?

also if just XQuartz concern, I think it is probably okay? as xclip use the same dep tree for both linux and macOS from homebrew perspective

Maybe it's just me but xclip didn't work (or worked oddly?) though the machine already had XQuartz. Using the native tool is just overall nicer.

I prefer to leave the upstreaming to someone else, too much other open source stuff to do at the moment.
(feel free take my snippets as-is)

Maybe it's just me but xclip didn't work (or worked oddly?) though the machine already had XQuartz. Using the native tool is just overall nicer.

I prefer to leave the upstreaming to someone else, too much other open source stuff to do at the moment. (feel free take my snippets as-is)

sounds good, I am gonna merge it for now, we can always followup to improve it for everyone. Thanks for the input though! 👍

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