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by anony23 1126 days ago
Pbcopy/pbpaste are huge productivity boosters for me
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I have a shell alias so I can just type pb to do pbpaste|pbcopy - easiest way I’ve found to strip formatting and get plain text.
It's a little awkward, but Cmd-Opt-Shift-V is "Paste and Match Style" aka "paste as plain text".
Pro-tip (at least for me): control (^) doesn't change this, so you can just hold all the modifier keys rather than trying to remember which 3 let you paste as plain text.
Pb stands for pasteboard and not for lead. :D

http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Docs/NeXTStep/3.3/nd/...