JetBrains/IntelliJ external tool put text into clipboard

Question

I am using "External tools" functionality in CLion (but it's the same for any of the JetBrains IDEs). I want to have a simple tool that will put some link on my clipboard.

I am on MacOS, so I figured out I can use pbcopy. The problem is that when you call pbcopy {$args} the command doesn't stop. Most of the examples I've seen would do echo $args | pbcopy, but I can't do that here. I've tried adding a \n at the end of the arguments, without success.

I know I could simply create a script that does echo "$1" | pbcopy and call it, but I want to share that tool with colleagues so it would be better without asking them to create a script.

Answer 1

You could use bash in "Program" field and -c "echo \"Hello world\" | pbcopy" in "Arguments" field for it.