How do you set an image as the clipboard with pbcopy?
This doesn't work:
cat image.png | pbcopy
5 Answers
one alternative that works for both images and animated gif is:
osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to set the clipboard to ( POSIX file "<PATH_TO_IMAGE>" )'
The actual (or final) answer to how to copy a PNG image into the macos' clipboard was hidden in the comments to the Mark's answer. As it is not (that) obvious from Mark's answer and it took me a while to find it I will leave it as an answer here:
osascript -e 'set the clipboard to (read (POSIX file "/Users/mark/Desktop/a.png") as {«class PNGf»})'
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