Copying Remote Command Output to Your macOS Clipboard

I use Apple devices very often. Overall, I like macOS. Certainly more than Windows. One of the things I find extremely useful is a command I discovered not too long ago: pbcopy. pbcopy can be used to copy to the clipboard whatever it receives from standard input. For example, when I am in a shell, I often use a command like this: cat filename.md | pbcopy At that point I know that the content of the file is in the clipboard, and I can paste it wherever I need, calmly and without any additional steps. There is one limitation, though: this only works locally. It works when I am using my Mac and I want to copy something from the macOS shell. When I connect to a remote (*BSD, Linux, illumos based) server via ssh, pbcopy is not available. Or, more precisely, even if I create a command with the same name on the server, that command cannot directly talk to the clipboard of my Mac in the usual way. Luckily, modern terminal emulators have a few tricks available. I use iTerm2 for most of my ssh…