Easiest way to strip newline character from input string in pasteboard

pwd | tr -d '\n' | pbcopy

printf $(pwd) | pbcopy

echo -n $(pwd) | pbcopy

Note that these should really be quoted in case there are whitespace characters in the directory name. For example:

echo -n "$(pwd)" | pbcopy

macos unix shell

I wrote a utility called noeol to solve this problem. It pipes stdin to stdout, but leaves out the trailing newline if there is one. E.g.

pwd | noeol | pbcopy

…I aliased copy to noeol | pbcopy.

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