[daw___]

That's an interesting point. Maybe the tool could create a temporary file with the data piped to it.

But for now I think you should stick with:

pbpaste > /tmp/clipboard.txt && qr-filetransfer /tmp/clipboard.txt

Thanks for the idea, I'm tracking it in github.

[throw501]

hmm. i'd rather not. generally don't want the clipboard going to disk. thanks though.

[JetSpiegel]

Pipe to /dev/shm/filename

[daw___]

Reasonable