


Vice-versa for pbpaste - it will allow you to paste your clipboard right into your terminal. Pbcopy will allow you to copy the output of a command right into your clipboard. Make it a habit and you will supercharge your productivity.

You can go do the exact same thing in your Mac terminal with pbcopy and pbpaste. To copy you, would press ctrl+shift+c To paste you, would press ctrl+shift+v Using pbcopy and pbpaste Well, you can override your override keys by pressing the ctrl and shift keys at the same time. Here’s the thing, the ctrl character when combined with other keys is used to send signals to your machine kernel. Hopefully this solution helps someone as it helped our macOS based team be far more efficient with their customers and enabled our software to pick up the copied number and display customer details as they called in.If you’re here reading this, then you’re probably stumped as to why you can’t use crtl-c or ctrl-v to copy and paste code into your terminal. For our environment copying the number as it was ringing was fine.įrom this point every call that rings the client or that connects depending on your choice in step 9 will be copied to the users pasteboard and will now be able to be pasted in to your own CRM or other software instantly and on the fly. You will need to select whether or not you want the number to be copied as the call is ringing or as it connects to the operator. For my environment I only required the caller number so I backspaced everything after the % following the argument %CallerNumber%.ĩ. This tick box by default is set to send the Caller Number and Caller Name as arguments to an external program. Select the tick box next to "Launch application on incoming call" Send the Caller Number to the application:Ĩ. This file will need to be somewhere that your client machine and the 3cx client running on it can reach. You could save this locally or on a network share, whichever is best for your environment. Export the file as an application for the next set of steps. This script makes the argument passed visible as text and uses a built in bash function to copy the text to the pasteboard (clipboard)ĥ. Set the shell as /bin/bash and change Pass input to "as arguments"Ĥ. Search for "Run Shell Script" in the box at the top of the automator window and drag this over to the right hand side of the screenģ.

You will need to open Automator and select application to create the new application.Ģ. There are some simple steps involved to automate the copying of the caller number on macOS. This script is extremely handy since hotkeys have not yet been enabled for the macOS client (as at ). I am new to the forum but have used advice here to implement changes within my own environment many times and since I could not find anything relating to how to do this here I thought that this might come in handy for anybody running the 3cx Client on macOS.
