Remove Kindle verbiage?

[benisek00]

Every time I copy and paste from a Kindle book to a TextEdit file where I keep notes and important points, it also pastes "Book Title - XYZ Publishing. Kindle Edition.". Is there a way to program KeyboardCowboy with that exact text so that every time I copy-paste, what's added by the Kindle is automatically removed from the TextEdit file?

[zenangst]

Hey @benisek00, I guess you could pipe it out to a shell script, strip the added text and then perform an action in the app that you want.

Are you familiar with shell scripting?

[benisek00]

Hello! Thank you for your email! Does that answer your question if I tell you that I have no idea what "pipe out” even means? Sorry - I’m probably not the target audience for your app - but I love it, I use it for signatures and short bits of texts in my emails. :)

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On Mar 19, 2024, at 13:51, Christoffer Winterkvist ***@***.***> wrote: Hey @benisek00 <https://github.com/benisek00>, I guess you could pipe it out to a shell script, strip the added text and then perform an action in the app that you want. Are you familiar with shell scripting? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#516 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AO6I7HJYX3PF465OUXQGAWDYZCQO7AVCNFSM6AAAAABE6CLQHGVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM4DQNBVG44TI>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.

[zenangst]

@benisek00 I didn't test this out myself but I guess something like this could work:

Just to explain what it does.

pbpaste gets the current contents of your pasteboard.
We save that into a variable called clipboard_content.
We then try and remove the string that you provided using sed.

Book Title - XYZ Publishing. Kindle Edition.

Finally, to wrap things up, we take our updated content and send it back to the pasteboard using pbcopy.

[benisek00]

You are fantastic. Will try it right now!

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On Mar 19, 2024, at 15:59, Christoffer Winterkvist ***@***.***> wrote: @benisek00 <https://github.com/benisek00> I didn't test this out myself but I guess something like this could work: image.png (view on web) <https://github.com/zenangst/KeyboardCowboy/assets/57446/c4d2474c-fc70-4dc5-ad89-09d4af6388ed> Just to explain what it does. pbpaste gets the current contents of your pasteboard. We save that into a variable called clipboard_content. We then try and remove the string that you provided using sed. Book Title - XYZ Publishing. Kindle Edition. Finally, to wrap things up, we take our updated content and send it back to the pasteboard using pbcopy. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#516 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AO6I7HKFGGT57HSELLPD4MDYZC7NFAVCNFSM6AAAAABE6CLQHGVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM4DQNBWG44DA>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.