Paste clipboard data as plain text Service

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Is there a Mac OS X service that takes clipboard data and pastes it as plain text? Or an easy way to create one?

Best Answer

A couple options, gleefully swiped from Mac OS X Hints:

Applescript, converting pasteboard contents to plain text and pasting: 

tell application "Finder" to set frontApp to (name of 1st process whose frontmost = true)
tell application frontApp
    activate
    set clip to «class ktxt» of ((the clipboard as text) as record)
    tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using {command down}
end tell

Shell script, save it in your Scripts folder and chmod 755

#!/bin/sh
pbpaste | pbcopy
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using {command down}'
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