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Ruby Clipboard Directory List Utility

I wrote this little script to copy the filenames of a directory into the clipboard a while back and forgot to post about it. I've been particularly surprised about how often it's come in handy for this or that.

 require 'clipboard'
 
c = Clipboard.new
 
list = ''
 
if ARGV.size == 0
	path =  "."
else
	path = ARGV[0]
end
 
Dir.foreach(path) {
	|file|
	if(file.length > 2)
		list << file << "\n"
	end
}
 
c.set_data list

To use it, simply call run the script with the directory you want copied to your clipboard as an argument!

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