https://lloydroc.github.io/tags/wsl/Recent content in Wsl on Lloyd Rochester's Geek BlogHugoenCopyright © 2025, Lloyd Rochester.Sat, 11 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://lloydroc.github.io/post/unix/wsl-pbcopy-pbpaste/Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://lloydroc.github.io/post/unix/wsl-pbcopy-pbpaste/<h1 id="hahahugoshortcode101s0hbhb">pbcopy/pbpaste in WSL</h1> <p>If you&rsquo;re looking to replicate the pbcopy and pbpaste commands in WSL then you&rsquo;ve found the right place! In this post we will make some simple shell scripts to replicate pbcopy and pbpaste in OS X. If you&rsquo;re accustomed to pbcopy/pbpaste in Mac OS X, it&rsquo;s hard to not have the equivalent in WSL. One spoiler alert the commands just are not as fast as they are in OS X.</p>https://lloydroc.github.io/post/vim/wsl-neovim-copy-paste/Tue, 25 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://lloydroc.github.io/post/vim/wsl-neovim-copy-paste/<figure><img src="https://lloydroc.github.io/assets/svg/yank.svg"> </figure> <h1 id="hahahugoshortcode104s1hbhb">Copy Paste with Neovim in WSL</h1> <p>Copy (Yank) and Paste doesn&rsquo;t work in <a href="https://neovim.io/doc/user/provider.html">neovim</a> because it cannot access the System Clipboard on WSL - Windows Subsystem Linux. This simple small hack solves this issue. This hack works without having to install X Windows or any other tools.</p> <p><strong>Update <a href="https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/FAQ#how-to-use-the-windows-clipboard-from-wsl">Neovim Official Solution</a></strong>. The solution posted in this blog post works, however, at the time there was no official solution. Now see the official solution using the <code>win32yank</code> binary. I honestly have not tried the solution posted herein for sometime as I no longer have WSL. There maybe a <code>neovim</code> clipboard provider that works and is built in. In the solution provided we create a pair of Unix scripts to act as that provider if you don&rsquo;t have the <code>win32yank</code> binary.</p>