How can I copy text to the clipboard using AppleScript

applescript clipboard
ThatCrazyCow picture ThatCrazyCow · Jan 17, 2014 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

I would like to create an application using AppleScript to copy the system info and email it to myself. I know to to do the emailing aspect and how to make the email have the content of whatever is in the clipboard. How might I use AppleScript coding to copy text to the clipboard?

In case it helps here is the way to email whatever is in the clipboard:

set a to "[email protected]"
tell application "Mail"
tell (make new outgoing message)
set subject to (the clipboard)
set content to "content"
make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:a}
send
end tell
end tell

Answer

jweaks picture jweaks · Jan 17, 2014

You simply use

set the clipboard to "Some text"

You can also assign to the various parts of the clipboard (plain text, unicode, pict) directly, as in:

set the clipboard to {text:(outputText as string), Unicode text:outputText}

Related questions

Sending commands and strings to Terminal.app with Applescript

I want to do something like this: tell application "Terminal" activate do script "ssh [email protected]" -- // write user's password -- // write some linux commands to remote server end tell For example to log in to the server, enter …

Read More
How do I make a Mac Terminal pop-up/alert? Applescript?

I want to be able to have my program display an alert, notice, whatever that displays my custom text. How is this done? Also, is it possible to make one with several buttons that sets a variable? Similar to batch's: …

Read More
Open an .html file with default browser using Bash on Mac

So, this is what I need : Let's say I have an index.html file. How do I tell the terminal to open it using the default browser? (Using AppleScript, BASH,...?)

Read More