copy-to-clipboard — platform-formatted, ready to paste

What this is

When you draft a post for somewhere specific — LinkedIn, X, Reddit, an email — don't leave it as markdown in a file for you to copy and clean up by hand. Format it for that platform and drop it straight onto your clipboard, so you paste once and it's already right.

Why

Markdown doesn't survive most platforms. LinkedIn strips # and **. X has no formatting and a hard character limit. Pasting raw markdown means hand-fixing it every time. This does the conversion and the copy in one move.

Per-platform formatting

• LinkedIn — plain text, short paragraphs, lots of whitespace, hook on line 1. No #/**/>. Put links on their own line (LinkedIn unfurls the first one). Bullets as line breaks or •.
• X / Twitter — plain text, one idea per post; split a thread on blank lines; keep each part under the limit.
• Reddit — Reddit does take markdown, so keep it, but drop the heading stacks and match the sub's voice.
• Email — plain text or simple HTML; no stray markdown.

How (macOS)

Pipe the finished, platform-formatted text to pbcopy:

cat post.txt | pbcopy            # copy a file's contents
printf '%s' "$post" | pbcopy     # copy a variable

Other platforms: Linux xclip -selection clipboard or wl-copy, Windows clip.

Rule

After copying, say what's on the clipboard and where it goes: "Copied — ready to paste into LinkedIn." Don't make anyone hunt for the text.