Reversing your clipboard

Have you ever had a list in a website that you wanted to reverse the order and paste into a spreadsheet? With the CLI, it’s easy:

1. Copy the list into your clipboard. Try it with the example here:

   3
   2
   1

2. Make sure you have pbcopy and pbpaste

3. Use tac to invert the clipboard

   pbpaste | tac | pbcopy

4. Now paste and you should see

1
2
3