MacOS X How To: Saving Clipboard Content as Plain Text File

OS X TextEdit saves text as RTF. If you want to save clipboard content as plain text without installing third party applications. Follow the steps below.

1. Open TextEdit application
2. Menu->Preferences
3. Choose [Format] -> [Plain Text]
4. Type Command+N to create new document
5. Type Command+V to paste clipboard content
6. Type Command+S and choose Plain Text Encoding and Input file name and [Save]

Another method(Using command line)

1. Open Terminal and cd to any folder

2. Type command below

   pbpaste> pasted.text

Use pbcopy to copy input pipe to clipboard

echo Hello|pbcopy

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