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Select text like a ninja
Six useful Mac moves for selecting and copying text.
Inside “Clipboard Cheat Sheet (sample edition)”
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Terminal
Copy command output
command | pbcopy
Terminal to Notes to Email in one step.
Terminal
Read clipboard text
pbpaste
Turn copied text into data.
iPadOS
Screenshot
iOS/iPadOS
Copy selected text
Three-finger pinch inward
Copy, cut, and paste with three-finger pinch gestures.
iOS / iPadOS
Universal Clipboard
macOS
Triple‑Tap = Select Paragraph
Inside “Select text like a ninja”
Six useful Mac moves for selecting and copying text.
macOS
Extend selection by words
⇧⌥← / ⇧⌥→ · Shift–Option–Arrow
Place the cursor in editable text. Hold Shift and Option, then press Left Arrow or Right Arrow to extend the selection word by word. App be…
macOS
Select to a line boundary
⇧⌘← / ⇧⌘→ · Shift–Command–Arrow
macOS
Extend a selection to a distant point
Shift-click the endpoint
macOS
Select a word or paragraph
Double-click / triple-click
Double-click a word to select it, or triple-click within a paragraph to select that paragraph. The text must be selectable in the app.
macOS
Copy selected text by dragging
Option-drag
macOS
Copy
⌘C
Copy selected text on Mac or iPad with a keyboard. Use Command-A first to select all text in an editable text field.
