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https://github.com/BitBravo/clipboard-sync

Clipboard Sync Application
https://github.com/BitBravo/clipboard-sync

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Clipboard Sync Application

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# clipboard-sync

## Description

It's a small client-server script which allows to synchronise clipboard
between two computers. It's very useful when you have a virtual machine
like VirtualBox without installed guest additions (Mac OS X guest for example).
It works on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

## Installation (both client and server)

1. Install [Node.js](http://nodejs.org)

* on OSX use [homebrew](http://brew.sh) `brew install node`
* on Windows use [chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/) `choco install nodejs`
* on Debian based linux use `apt-get install nodejs npm`

2. Install forever package:

npm install forever -g

3. Install clipboard-sync with [npm](https://npmjs.org/package/clipboard-sync):

npm install -g clipboard-sync

## Usage

Starting a server using one of the following ways:

clipboard-sync # Using default settings, bind to 0.0.0.0:1077
clipboard-sync 192.168.1.2 # Using default port 1077
clipboard-sync 192.168.1.2:1077 # Full syntax

Starting a client using one of the following ways:

clipboard-sync -c # Using default settings, connect to 10.0.2.2:1077
clipboard-sync -c 192.168.1.2 # Using default port 1077
clipboard-sync -c 192.168.1.2:1077 # Full syntax

Setting refresh interval in milliseconds (how often script will spy on
clipboard changes), can be set in both client and server mode:

clipboard-sync -c -i 100

## License

Licensed under MIT.