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Using `vipe` you can do things like:

   $ pbpaste | vipe | pbcopy

Which will open your editor so you can edit whatever is in your clipboard.

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Just realised what the pb stands for. Did they really not think of clipboard? Who came up with the "clipboard" name?

The pasteboard, like many things in OS X, is from NextStep. As for why they called it a pasteboard and not a clipboard, I have no idea, presumably someone thought it would be more descriptive.

Wikipedia says "clipboard" was coined by Larry Tesler (in the 70's?)

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