How do you set an image as the clipboard with pbcopy?
This doesn't work:
cat image.png | pbcopy
Updated Answer
You can actually put a JPEG image in the clipboard using Applescript like this at the command-line:
osascript -e 'set the clipboard to (read (POSIX file "/Users/mark/Desktop/a.jpg") as JPEG picture)'
You can then check what is on the clipboard with:
osascript -e 'clipboard info'
JPEG picture, 175960, «class 8BPS», 641904, GIF picture, 124637, «class jp2 », 102086, TIFF picture, 1481282, «class PNGf», 412940, «class BMP », 1477734, «class TPIC», 609835
And also paste the image into a document, with the usual ⌘-V.
Original Answer
You can do this without needing to compile any additional software and just use the tools provided in OS X. Basically, the clipboard is unable to store binary, so you need to uuencode
your binary image into simple ASCII data like this:
# Copy image to clipboard
uuencode SomeFile.jpg - | pbcopy
and uudecode
when going back the other way
# Paste from clipboard to image file
pbpaste | uudecode -o AnotherFile.jpg
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