copy-post-text

copy-post-text

Pipe a post draft into scripts/pbcopy-text.swift so it lands on the macOS pasteboard as correctly-encoded UTF-8. Unlike system pbcopy, this preserves Mathematical Bold/Italic characters used as a LinkedIn formatting hack.

When to use

Run after /linkedin-content:draft-post N — when the user wants the raw markdown text on the clipboard, especially if the draft uses Mathematical Bold (𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗱) or Italic (𝘐𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤) Unicode characters that macOS pbcopy corrupts.

User input

$ARGUMENTS

$ARGUMENTS is <post-number> [variant]:

• <post-number> — required, integer 1–5.
• [variant] — optional, one of technical, business, founder. Defaults to business.

Argument parsing

• No argument: Output "ERROR: Post number required. Usage: /linkedin-content:copy-post-text N [variant]" and STOP.
• Post number not 1–5: Output "ERROR: Invalid post number '<n>'. Must be 1–5." and STOP.
• Variant not in {technical, business, founder}: Output "ERROR: Invalid variant '<v>'. Must be technical, business, or founder." and STOP.

Prerequisites

The draft file content/posts/post-N/draft-<variant>.md must exist. If missing, output and STOP:

ERROR: Draft not found at content/posts/post-N/draft-<variant>.md
- Run /linkedin-content:draft-post N first to generate it.

Process

Run this single Bash command, substituting N and <variant>:

cat content/posts/post-N/draft-<variant>.md | "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/pbcopy-text.swift"

On success, output:

Copied post N (<variant>) to clipboard as plain UTF-8. Paste anywhere with Cmd-V.

If the pipeline exits non-zero, surface the stderr verbatim and STOP.

Error handling

Condition	Response
Missing draft file	HARD BLOCK — see Prerequisites
Invalid post number / variant	ERROR with usage
Script exits non-zero	Surface stderr, STOP