tldr/pages/common/copyq.md

# copyq

> Clipboard manager with advanced features.
> More information: <https://copyq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command-line.html>.

- Launch CopyQ to store clipboard history:

`copyq`

- Show current clipboard content:

`copyq clipboard`

- Insert raw text into the clipboard history:

`copyq add -- {{text1}} {{text2}} {{text3}}`

- Insert text containing escape sequences ('\n', '\t') into the clipboard history:

`copyq add {{firstline\nsecondline}}`

- Print the content of the first 3 items in the clipboard history:

`copyq read 0 1 2`

- Copy a file's contents into the clipboard:

`copyq copy < {{path/to/file.txt}}`

- Copy a JPEG image into the clipboard:

`copyq copy image/jpeg < {{path/to/image.jpg}}`