How to clear the pasteboard / find string from the command line?

Question

I want to be able clear out the whatever data is cached in find (command-f) clipboard contents from the command line.

Whatever is in there seems to carry across between applications. This is a clear security risk in some cases.

Is there a way to do this?

How so a security risk? Surely you don't have more than one person using the same user account? — benwiggy, May 23 '20 at 15:41

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '20 at 15:45

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The magic words seem to be

pbcopy -pboard find < /dev/null

edited May 23 '20 at 15:45

benwiggy

answered Aug 18 '12 at 12:17

Phillip Mills

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