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How to Send the Contents of a Text File to the Clipboard from the Command Line in OS X?

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I would like to send the contents of a text file to the OS X clipboard. Does Mac OS X have a built in way to do this, or will I have write a script to do this myself? Or in other words, how do I access the clipboard from the command line?

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