Copying Multiple Content Simaltaneously

We often used to thank  Larry Tesler  for his splendid invention "Cut/Copy/Paste". Think of the world without copy/paste :o :o :o

Have you ever tried copying non-sequential content?

Ctrl+v will paste the last copied content in the clipboard, whereas ctrl+c copies the content that are selected sequentially  to the clipboard.

What if I wanted to copy multiple content from multiple web pages and pasting it in one go, instead of pasting one by one? Or without using paste command copy the multiple content directly to a file?

Here is the solution for the Mac Users. [Windows user? Working on it. Will update asap ;) ] 

Follow the steps below, which takes less than five minutes and save several minutes ;)

1)   Launch “Automator”

2)    Choose “Utilities” in the left pane

3)    Double Click “Run Shell Script”

4)    The “Run Shell Script” will be added to the right pane.

5)    Add the following script in the script content.

for f in "$@"

do

echo "$f" >> /Users/pthiaga/Desktop/cmp.txt

done

cat /Users/pthiaga/Desktop/cmp.txt

[You can use any file name here]

6)  Double click on the “Get value of Variable”
7)  Add a variable named “Some variable”[any name J]
8)  Double click on the “Copy to Clipboard”. Apple script can also be used to copy to clipboard.
9)   Save the utility with a name, say “Multiple copy to Clipboard”
10) Choose “Output replaces selected text”

11) Go to “System preference” -> “Keyboard”

12) Choose “Shortcuts".

13) Select “Services” in the left pane

14) Select the utility name which you saved and enter any new keyboard shortcut. For eg:             Cmd+Option+Y. [Note – Use the command that is not used by the system already.]
15) That’s it! Done. Yayy!! 

Now, try copying text from multiple places using the shortcut (Cmd+Option+Y) and check the file used in the script. All the contents will be copied to the file. You can also use “Cmd+V” to paste all the contents from clipboard.

Copying first text using “Cmd+Option+Y”

Copying second text using “Cmd+Option+Y”

Trying “Cmd+V” paste combined content of both the copies.

Also check the file which shows the combined content.

Now, what if you want to copy contents by removing the previous content of the file?1) Create new utility with “No Input”.
2) Add “Ask for confirmation” to a new utility
3) Add “Run Shell Script” and add the following script:

       > /Users/pthiaga/Desktop/cmp.txt
      4) Save it with new name, say “StartFreshCMT”

5) Go to Keyboard shortcut and add a shortcut for this utility. I used “Cmd+Ctrl+Y”

6) That’s it. Now you can copy contents simultaneously to same file however you want.

Trying command “Cmd+Ctrl+Y”, which shows the alert “Wanna start copying afresh”.

Clicking “OK”.

Now, copying content using the copy utility shortcut that was created above “Cmd+Option+Y”.

Check the file which erase the previous content and copy the fresh content.

Steps for windows coming soon J