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what does that even do?


Looks like it tries wl-copy, then tries xclip and then tries xsel. I have no idea what those are but google says it's for Wayland, so, I think it's a linux function trying to copy to clipboard? I think their problem is with the use of '.then(...=>...)' since there doesn't seem to be a way to tell each function that the nested ones actually finished.


wl-copy is a program to put text into the system clipboard if you're on a wayland-based system (so you can ctrl-v paste it somewhere else). Imagine like, cat ~/.ssh/whatever | wl-copy and then pasting into github or something.

xclip is the same for X based systems.


It looks like a search for the command line tool available to send content to the clipboard.

Can't tell if that obfuscated code works though.




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