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posted this on stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9422 ... -clipboard

this rather simple and slightly mortifying one-liner does the trick: vlc -vvv $(pbpaste)

So my scenario is that I've copied a http link that I want to stream with vlc player to the clipboard. I would like to write a simple script that starts playing the file at the path on the clipboard. I've already tried pbpaste | VLC - pbpaste outputs the contents of the clipboard to stdout, so I was...